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Will the AMI have the additional instance store volume data?

A user has launched an EC2 instance from an instance store backed AMI. The user has attached an additional
instance store volume to the instance. The user wants to create an AMI from the running instance. Will the AMI
have the additional instance store volume data?

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A.
Yes, the block device mapping will have information about the additional instance store volume

B.
No, since the instance store backed AMI can have only the root volume bundled

C.
It is not possible to attach an additional instance store volume to the existing instance store backed AMI
instance

D.
No, since this is ephermal storage it will not be a part of the AMI

Explanation:
When the user has launched an EC2 instance from an instance store backed AMI and added an instance store
volume to the instance in addition to the root device volume, the block device mapping for the new AMI
contains the information for these volumes as well. In addition, the block device mappings for the instances
those are launched from the new AMI will automatically contain information for these volumes.


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