Increase the size of an ABS volume on Linux EC2 AWS

Increase the size of an ABS volume in 3 steps

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1. Create Amazon EBS snapshots

1. Open the Amazon EC2 console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/.
2. Choose Snapshots under Elastic Block Store in the navigation pane.
3. Choose Create Snapshot.
4. For Select resource type, choose Volume.
5. For Volume, select the volume.
6. (Optional) Enter a description for the snapshot.
7. (Optional) Choose Add Tag to add tags to your snapshot. For each tag, provide a tag key and a tag value.
8. Choose Create Snapshot.

2. Modify an EBS volume using Elastic Volumes (console)

Use the following procedure to modify an EBS volume.

To modify an EBS volume using the console

1. Open the Amazon EC2 console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/.
2. Choose Volumes, select the volume to modify, and then choose Actions, Modify Volume.
3. The Modify Volume window displays the volume ID and the volume’s current configuration, including type, size, IOPS, and throughput. Set new…