BlockDeviceMapping
Describes a block device mapping.
Contents
- DeviceName
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The device name exposed to the EC2 instance (for example,
/dev/sdhorxvdh). For more information, see Device Naming on Linux Instances in the Amazon EC2 User Guide for Linux Instances.Type: String
Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 255.
Pattern:
[\u0020-\uD7FF\uE000-\uFFFD\uD800\uDC00-\uDBFF\uDFFF\r\n\t]*Required: Yes
- Ebs
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The information about the Amazon EBS volume.
Type: Ebs object
Required: No
- NoDevice
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Suppresses a device mapping.
If this parameter is true for the root device, the instance might fail the EC2 health check. In that case, Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling launches a replacement instance.
Type: Boolean
Required: No
- VirtualName
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The name of the virtual device (for example,
ephemeral0).Type: String
Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 255.
Pattern:
[\u0020-\uD7FF\uE000-\uFFFD\uD800\uDC00-\uDBFF\uDFFF\r\n\t]*Required: No
See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:
