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VolumeConfiguration - OpsWorks

VolumeConfiguration

Describes an Amazon EBS volume configuration.

Contents

MountPoint

The volume mount point. For example "/dev/sdh".

Type: String

Required: Yes

NumberOfDisks

The number of disks in the volume.

Type: Integer

Required: Yes

Size

The volume size.

Type: Integer

Required: Yes

Encrypted

Specifies whether an Amazon EBS volume is encrypted. For more information, see Amazon EBS Encryption.

Type: Boolean

Required: No

Iops

For PIOPS volumes, the IOPS per disk.

Type: Integer

Required: No

RaidLevel

The volume RAID level.

Type: Integer

Required: No

VolumeType

The volume type. For more information, see Amazon EBS Volume Types.

  • standard - Magnetic. Magnetic volumes must have a minimum size of 1 GiB and a maximum size of 1024 GiB.

  • io1 - Provisioned IOPS (SSD). PIOPS volumes must have a minimum size of 4 GiB and a maximum size of 16384 GiB.

  • gp2 - General Purpose (SSD). General purpose volumes must have a minimum size of 1 GiB and a maximum size of 16384 GiB.

  • st1 - Throughput Optimized hard disk drive (HDD). Throughput optimized HDD volumes must have a minimum size of 125 GiB and a maximum size of 16384 GiB.

  • sc1 - Cold HDD. Cold HDD volumes must have a minimum size of 125 GiB and a maximum size of 16384 GiB.

Type: String

Required: No

See Also

For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

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