Cloud computing is the on demand availability of computer system resources, especially data storage and computing power, without direct active management by the user. I’m using AWS for about 3 years now. The reason I used Amazon Web Service is because it very easy to use. You can fire up an instance in minutes. I have been using SSD volume storage as it very fast and versatile. First year until now I’m only provision for 8Gb. Now my volume storage is full so I need to extend my storage volume.
So, I went to AWS Console and click at volume storage and increase it 16GB. Now after waiting for about 30minutes and so it was ready. Now I can extend my volume. There are 2 steps in increasing the volume. After edit the configuration in AWS Console now I have to use command in Linux to extend it. I use df -aH to check the volume. It will stay 8Gb unless I ran command sudo growpart /dev/xvda 1. Now I’m finally able to see my partition increase in size from 8GB to 16GB. It very easy and simple. I’m using Ubuntu as my operating system.
To learn more you can go to this URL https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/recognize-expanded-volume-linux.html
