Amazon AWS – Change volume type – SSD GP2 to SSD IOPS

his article will walk through that how to change the AWS EBS volume type from  SSD GP2 to  SSD IOPS volume type. Changing the volume type  is not straight forward for all the volume types. Due to the instance limitation, you can’t change the volume type on the fly. You need to halt the instance in an order to change the volume type. But you could give a try to change the volume type while the instance is up & running .
1. Login to the AWS Console and navigate to EC2 tab.

2. Stop the instance by clicking Action – > Instance State – > Stop.

Stop the AWS instance

3. Navigate to the volume tab. Select the volume and click on modify from Actions tab.

Click on Modify Volume – AWS

4. Change the volume type from SSD GP2 to SSD IO1.

Change the volume type from SSD GP2 to SASD IO1

5. Click “Yes” to change the volume type.

Click Yes to change volume type – AWS

If you try to change the volume type without stopping the instance, it will fail.

AWS on-fly Volume Modification Fails

If you have seen the above procedure , we can’t change the volume type to any magnetic storage or other available storage types. We will see that how to change the EBS volume to other volume types in next article.