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Disable Multi-Attach for an Amazon EBS volume

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Disable Multi-Attach for an Amazon EBS volume - Amazon EBS

You can disable Multi-Attach for an io2 volume only if it is attached to no more than one instance.

Note

You can't disable Multi-Attach for io1 volumes after creation.

Use one of the following methods to disable Multi-Attach for an io2 volume.

Console
To disable Multi-Attach after creation

  1. Open the Amazon EC2 console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/.

  2. In the navigation pane, choose Volumes.

  3. Select the volume and choose Actions, Modify volume.

  4. For Amazon EBS Multi-Attach, clear Enable Multi-Attach.

  5. Choose Modify.

Command line
To disable Multi-Attach after creation

Use the modify-volume command and specify the -no-multi-attach-enabled parameter.

$ C:\> aws ec2 modify-volume --volume-id vol-1234567890abcdef0 --no-multi-attach-enabled
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To disable Multi-Attach after creation

  1. Open the Amazon EC2 console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/.

  2. In the navigation pane, choose Volumes.

  3. Select the volume and choose Actions, Modify volume.

  4. For Amazon EBS Multi-Attach, clear Enable Multi-Attach.

  5. Choose Modify.

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