name : create-volume.rst **To create an empty General Purpose SSD (gp2) volume** The following ``create-volume`` example creates an 80 GiB General Purpose SSD (gp2) volume in the specified Availability Zone. Note that the current Region must be ``us-east-1``, or you can add the ``--region`` parameter to specify the Region for the command. :: aws ec2 create-volume \ --volume-type gp2 \ --size 80 \ --availability-zone us-east-1a Output:: { "AvailabilityZone": "us-east-1a", "Tags": [], "Encrypted": false, "VolumeType": "gp2", "VolumeId": "vol-1234567890abcdef0", "State": "creating", "Iops": 240, "SnapshotId": "", "CreateTime": "YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS.000Z", "Size": 80 } If you do not specify a volume type, the default volume type is ``gp2``. :: aws ec2 create-volume \ --size 80 \ --availability-zone us-east-1a **Example 2: To create a Provisioned IOPS SSD (io1) volume from a snapshot** The following ``create-volume`` example creates a Provisioned IOPS SSD (io1) volume with 1000 provisioned IOPS in the specified Availability Zone using the specified snapshot. :: aws ec2 create-volume \ --volume-type io1 \ --iops 1000 \ --snapshot-id snap-066877671789bd71b \ --availability-zone us-east-1a Output:: { "AvailabilityZone": "us-east-1a", "Tags": [], "Encrypted": false, "VolumeType": "io1", "VolumeId": "vol-1234567890abcdef0", "State": "creating", "Iops": 1000, "SnapshotId": "snap-066877671789bd71b", "CreateTime": "YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS.000Z", "Size": 500 } **Example 3: To create an encrypted volume** The following ``create-volume`` example creates an encrypted volume using the default CMK for EBS encryption. If encryption by default is disabled, you must specify the ``--encrypted`` parameter as follows. :: aws ec2 create-volume \ --size 80 \ --encrypted \ --availability-zone us-east-1a Output:: { "AvailabilityZone": "us-east-1a", "Tags": [], "Encrypted": true, "VolumeType": "gp2", "VolumeId": "vol-1234567890abcdef0", "State": "creating", "Iops": 240, "SnapshotId": "", "CreateTime": "YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS.000Z", "Size": 80 } If encryption by default is enabled, the following example command creates an encrypted volume, even without the ``--encrypted`` parameter. :: aws ec2 create-volume \ --size 80 \ --availability-zone us-east-1a If you use the ``--kms-key-id`` parameter to specify a customer managed CMK, you must specify the ``--encrypted`` parameter even if encryption by default is enabled. :: aws ec2 create-volume \ --volume-type gp2 \ --size 80 \ --encrypted \ --kms-key-id 0ea3fef3-80a7-4778-9d8c-1c0c6EXAMPLE \ --availability-zone us-east-1a **Example 4: To create a volume with tags** The following ``create-volume`` example creates a volume and adds two tags. :: aws ec2 create-volume \ --availability-zone us-east-1a \ --volume-type gp2 \ --size 80 \ --tag-specifications 'ResourceType=volume,Tags=[{Key=purpose,Value=production},{Key=cost-center,Value=cc123}]'