How to change the EBS disk type

This post will answer the below question:

1.How to change the EBS disk type.

Practical steps:

Step1: 

          login aws console.

Step 2:

            Navigate to services -->compute -->EC2-->Running EC2 instance -->select the correct EC2 instance.  where the modification of EC2 instance is required.

Step 3:

 Under Elastic Block Store  --> click on volumes.

     Here in the availability zone column, each EBS disk can be found here.

              in the Volume Type column -->EBS type info is available.

To change the EBS drive type of one particular EBS drive to another type -->select the correct EBS drive -->Actions dropdown --> Modify volume(as highlighted below).

Note:

Here in the snapshot column, the snapshot value of represents the root drive.

Step4:                                                                                                                                                              

                                                                                                                                                   

Result for the Step 3 will be as below screen. Here in Volume type drop down select the target type of EBS drive. 

in this scenario, im changing from General purpose SSD(gc2)  type to provisioned iops SSD(io1). 

Step 5:                                                                                                                                                            

                                                                                                                                                           

Selected Provisioned IOPS SSD(io1) as my target type. Along with Volume type, we can change SIZE and IOPS range also in the same screen.

Step 6:                                                                                                                                                     

if any action required at OS level. the list of steps for the activity is available in the links highlighted below. Here the links are available for both Windows and Linux based systems.

Click on Yes. To proceed to next step.

Step 7:                                                                                                                                                      

Conform screen. Just click on Close here.                                                                      

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Before performing the above activity, the Volume type is gc2.

Now it is io1. Hurrah!!! we have succeeded in change the EBS type.