Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
API Reference (API Version 2013-02-01)
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EbsBlockDeviceType

Describe an Amazon EBS block device.

Contents

snapshotId

The ID of the snapshot.

Type: String

volumeSize

The size of the volume, in GiB.

Type: Integer

Valid values: If the volume type is io1, the minimum size of the volume is 10 GiB.

Default: If you're creating the volume from a snapshot and don't specify a volume size, the default is the snapshot size.

deleteOnTermination

Whether the Amazon EBS volume is deleted on instance termination.

Type: Boolean

volumeType

The volume type.

Type: String

Valid values: standard | io1

Default: standard

iops

The number of I/O operations per second (IOPS) that the volume supports.

Type: Integer

Valid values: Range is 100 to 4000.

Default: None

Condition: Required when the volume type is io1; not used with standard volumes.