EBS Storage Locations

This topic provides information about the EBS device name that you must use in various adapter requests.

The following table describes how storage is exposed on the instance types.

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  • Formatted and mounted as root ( / ) on all Linux and UNIX instance types
  • Formatted and mounted as C: on all Windows instance types
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  • Formatted and mounted as /mnt on m1.small and c1.medium instances
  • Formatted and mounted on small Windows instance types
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  • Formatted and mounted as /swap on m1.small and c1.medium instances on all Linux and UNIX instance types
  • Not available on Windows instances
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  • Formatted and mounted as /mnt on m1.large, m1.xlarge, c1.xlarge, m2.xlarge, m2.2xlarge, and m2.4xlarge Linux and UNIX instances
  • Formatted and mounted on m1.large, m1.xlarge, c1.xlarge, m2.xlarge, and m2.2xlarge Windows instances
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  • Available on m1.large, m1.xlarge, and c1.xlarge Linux and UNIX instances
  • Formatted and mounted on m1.large, m1.xlarge, c1.xlarge, and m2.4xlarge Windows instances
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  • Available on m1.xlarge and c1.xlarge Linux and UNIX instances
  • Formatted and mounted on m1.xlarge and c1.xlarge Windows instances
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  • Available on m1.xlarge and c1.xlarge Linux and UNIX instances
  • Formatted and mounted on m1.xlarge and c1.xlarge Windows instances

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