ec2-create-volume

-s, --size size

The size of the volume, in GiBs.

Type: String

Valid Values: 1-1024

Condition: Required if you are not creating a volume from a snapshot.

Default: If you're creating a volume from a snapshot and don't specify a size, the default is the snapshot size.

Example: -s 80

Conditional

--snapshot snapshot

The snapshot from which to create the new volume.

Type: String

Default: None

Condition: Required if you are creating a volume from a snapshot.

Example: --snapshot snap-78a54011

Conditional

-z, --availability-zone zone

The Availability Zone in which to create the new volume.

Type: String

Default: None

Example: -z us-east-1a

Yes

--region REGION

Overrides the Region specified in the EC2_URL environment variable and the URL specified by the -U option.

Default: The EC2_URL environment variable, or us-east-1 if the environment variable is not set.

Example: --region eu-west-1

-U, --url URL

URL is the uniform resource locator of the Amazon EC2 web service entry point.

Default: The EC2_URL environment variable, or https://ec2.amazonaws.com if the environment variable is not set.

Example: -U https://ec2.amazonaws.com

-K, --private-key EC2-PRIVATE-KEY

The private key to use when constructing requests to Amazon EC2.

Default: The value of the EC2_PRIVATE_KEY environment variable.

Example: -K pk-HKZYKTAIG2ECMXYIBH3HXV4ZBEXAMPLE.pem

-C, --cert EC2-CERT

The X.509 certificate to use when constructing requests to Amazon EC2.

Default: The value of the EC2_CERT environment variable.

Example: -C cert-HKZYKTAIG2ECMXYIBH3HXV4ZBEXAMPLE.pem

--connection-timeout TIMEOUT

Specifies a connection timeout (in seconds).

Example: --connection-timeout 30

--request-timeout TIMEOUT

Specifies a request timeout (in seconds).

Example: --request-timeout 45

-v, --verbose

Displays verbose output by showing the SOAP request and response on the command line. This is particularly useful if you are building tools to talk directly to our SOAP API.

-H, --headers

Displays column headers in the output.

--show-empty-fields

Shows empty columns as (nil).

--hide-tags

Do not display tags for tagged resources.

--debug

Prints internal debugging information. This is useful to assist us when troubleshooting problems.

-?, --help, -h

Displays Help.

-

If - is specified as an argument to one of the parameters, a list of arguments is read from standard input. This is useful for piping the output of one command into the input of another.

Example: ec2-describe-instances | grep stopped | cut -f 2 | ec2-start-instances -