Volume operations

On a volume, you can:

You are also able to backup your volumes and re-use them as images.

A volume created at the same time as an instance can have the Delete on termination set which means the volume is permanently deleted when deleting the instance.

If you want to keep a volume you can always perform any of the below actions to save or clone a volume.

  • Backup the volume.

  • Copy the volume to an image.

  • Snapshot the volume and create a new volume from the snapshot

Important

Standard behaviour is that a volume gets deleted with its instance. Don’t delete an instance that you want to keep data from without performing one of the above actions first.