attach mount point to EBS volume using script

 #!/bin/bash

#attach the EBS drive from the console to /dev/sdf

#list the volumes

lslbk

#check if the volume has any data

sudo file -s /dev/xvdf

#format the volume as ext4

sudo mkfs -t ext4 /dev/xvdf

#create a directory

sudo mkdir /myexternalvolume

#mount our EBS to our directory

sudo mount /dev/xvdf  /myexternalvolume

output for the above script:

# with the above process the mount point will save temporarily, To save new mount point changes permanently. edit fstab file.

sudo nano /etc/fstab

 manually activity:

/dev/xvdf    /myexternalvolume  ext4 defaults,nofail    0   0 

press ESC 
:wq!

cat /etc/fstab --> check our new entry.

Attach new EBS volume to EC2 instance

This post will help you to attach a newly crated EBS to volume to particular EC2 instance.

Note: EBS volumes can attach to EC2 only, if both EC2 and newly created EBS volumes are in same Availability  Zone(AZ).

Here are the practical steps:

From the EC2 console page --> Navigate to Elastic Block Storage --> volumes.

select the newly created EBS volume --> Right click on it --> choose with Attach volume option(as shown below).

Provide instance id (which will obtain in EC2 launch page, instance id id EC2 instance specific).

Device : /dev/sdf or /dev/sdp, based on previously available volume.                                            

Click on Attach.                                                                                                                               

                                Thats all the volume is attached to EC2 instance now.