Amazon Web Services (AWS) - List Elastic Block Storage (EBS) Volumes using the AWS CLI

by
Jeremy Canfield |
Updated: April 01 2024
| Amazon Web Services (AWS) articles
This assumes you have already configured the aws command line tool. If not, check out my article on Getting Started with the AWS CLI.
By default, when you create a new EC2 instance, the file system being used by the EC2 instance will be an Elastic Block Storage (EBS) Volume. This can be seen on the Storage tab of your EC2 instance.
The aws ec2 describe-volumes command can be used to list your Elastic Block Storage (EBS) Volumes.
aws ec2 describe-volumes
And here is an example of how to limit the output using the --query option.
aws ec2 describe-volumes --query 'Volumes[?VolumeId==`vol-0d989fe3bad4dd2f9`]'
Something like this should be returned.
[
{
"AvailabilityZone": "us-east-1b",
"Attachments": [
{
"AttachTime": "2023-07-28T19:58:37.000Z",
"InstanceId": "i-0a3ea97aa2383de58",
"VolumeId": "vol-0d989fe3bad4dd2f9",
"State": "attached",
"DeleteOnTermination": true,
"Device": "/dev/xvda"
}
],
"Encrypted": false,
"VolumeType": "gp3",
"VolumeId": "vol-0d989fe3bad4dd2f9",
"State": "in-use",
"Iops": 3000,
"SnapshotId": "snap-096dd96dde7d24189",
"CreateTime": "2023-07-28T19:58:37.544Z",
"MultiAttachEnabled": false,
"Size": 8
}
]
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