Increase EBS on AWS AMI Linux with ease.

This is a quick tutorial that will cover the following:

Understand how to identify the EBS Volume associate and upgrade storage within AWS Console.

Increase the Elastic Block Storage (EBS) associated with the host Virtual Machine.

Step 1: Locate the Host AWS EC2 instance and select it. Then scroll down and look to the bottom right where it displays Block Device.

Step 2. Click on the /dev/xvda link for block devices. Then a popup will display. Click on the volume associated with the EC2 block device.

An example of that the popup will look like when clicking on /dev/xvda

Step 3: This will navigate you to the selected volume and the volume listing screen. Select the drop-down for actions. Then click on modify the volume.

Note: Take into consideration the IOPS. IOPS stands for input/output operations per second. Important to nice IOPS because this is the metrics in which Amazon charges.

A great article to read is about IOPS within AWS for a database platform.