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To create a new volume

This example command creates an 80 GiB General Purpose (SSD) volume in the Availability Zone us-east-1a.

Command:

aws ec2 create-volume --size 80 --region us-east-1 --availability-zone us-east-1a --volume-type gp2

Output:

{
    "AvailabilityZone": "us-east-1a",
    "Attachments": [],
    "Tags": [],
    "VolumeType": "gp2",
    "VolumeId": "vol-1234abcd",
    "State": "creating",
    "SnapshotId": null,
    "CreateTime": "YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS.000Z",
    "Size": 80
}

To create a new Provisioned IOPS (SSD) volume from a snapshot

This example command creates a new Provisioned IOPS (SSD) volume with 1000 provisioned IOPS from a snapshot in the Availability Zone us-east-1a.

Command:

aws ec2 create-volume --region us-east-1 --availability-zone us-east-1a --snapshot-id snap-abcd1234 --volume-type io1 --iops 1000

Output:

{
    "AvailabilityZone": "us-east-1a",
    "Attachments": [],
    "Tags": [],
    "VolumeType": "io1",
    "VolumeId": "vol-1234abcd",
    "State": "creating",
    "Iops": 1000,
    "SnapshotId": "snap-abcd1234",
    "CreateTime": "YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS.000Z",
    "Size": 500
}