How To Add Volumes to an AMI of EC2 Server By Raj Gupta

Open the Amazon EC2 console --->> In the navigation pane, choose Instances --->> Select an instance and choose Actions, Image, Create Image

In the Create Image dialog box, choose Add New Volume -->> Select a volume type from the Type list and a device name from the Device list. For an EBS volume, you can optionally specify a snapshot, volume size, and volume type --->> Choose Create Image.

Viewing the EBS Volumes in an AMI Block Device Mapping

Select the desired AMI, and look at the Details tab. At a minimum, the following information is available for the root device:

• Root Device Type (ebs) 
• Root Device Name (for example, /dev/sda1) 
• Block Devices (for example, /dev/sda1=snap-1234567890abcdef0:8:true)

If the AMI was created with additional EBS volumes using a block device mapping, the Block Devices field displays the mapping for those additional volumes as well