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When you view the block device mapping for your instance, you can see only the EBS volumes, not the instance s

When you view the block device mapping for your instance, you can see only the EBS volumes, not the
instance store volumes.

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A.
Depends on the instance type

B.
FALSE

C.
Depends on whether you use API call

D.
TRUE

16 Comments on “When you view the block device mapping for your instance, you can see only the EBS volumes, not the instance s

  1. ahb says:

    d
    Viewing the Instance Block Device Mapping for Instance Store Volumes

    When you view the block device mapping for your instance, you can see only the EBS volumes, not the instance store volumes.




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  2. Harold Spencer Jr. says:

    As Deepak Pant mentioned, the correct answer is A. Please see the following references for additional information:

    http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/InstanceStorage.html#instance-store-volumes
    http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/instance-types.html#instance-networking-storage

    Quote from the second link under “Storage features”:
    “Some instance types support EBS volumes and instance store volumes, while other instance types support only EBS volumes. “




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  3. Duck bro says:

    When you view the block device mapping for your instance, you can see only the EBS volumes, not the instance store volumes. You can use instance metadata to query the complete block device mapping. The base URI for all requests for instance metadata is http://169.254.169.254/latest/.




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  4. charles says:

    It seems the question is not being read properly.

    Here is my attempted explanation which makes the answer C
    (all command line are API calls).

    Through the console you can only see EBS volumes.

    By using the curl for the metadata, you can see non EBS (i.e )

    $ curl http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/block-device-mapping/

    The response includes the names of the block devices for the instance. For example, the output for an instance store–backed m1.small instance looks like this.

    ami
    ephemeral0
    )e.g

    $ curl http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/block-device-mapping/

    The response includes the names of the block devices for the instance. For example, the output for an instance store–backed m1.small instance looks like this.

    ami
    ephemeral0
    root
    swap

    The ami device is the root device as seen by the instance. The instance store volumes are named ephemeral[0-23]. The swap device is for the page file. If you’ve also mapped EBS volumes, they appear as ebs1, ebs2, and so on.




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