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Laucnh Amazin EC2 with existing EBS volume
by
Ciro Santilli
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Updated
2025-07-16
Not possible directly without
first
creating an AMI
image
from snapshot? So annoying!
serverfault.com/questions/639537/booting-an-ec2-instance-from-an-existing-ebs-volume
stackoverflow.com/questions/71847637/aws-ec2-how-to-use-pre-existing-ebs-volume-as-main-bootable-disk
The hot and more expensive sotorage for
Amazon EC2
, where e.
g
. your
Ubuntu
filesystem
will lie.
The cheaper and slower alternative is to use
Amazon S3
.
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