Status of AWS EBS Volumes meaning within the EBS Volume Asset Report

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• CloudHealth

Issue/Introduction

AWS EBS Volumes Asset Report can be found here: https://apps.cloudhealthtech.com/assets/aws/ec2/volumes

An additional column that can be added to the Asset Report is 'Status':

Resolution

The volume status describes the availability of an Amazon EBS volume. 

The possible volume states are:

• creating - The volume is being created.
• available - The volume is not attached to an instance.
• in-use - The volume is attached to an instance.
• deleting - The volume is being deleted.
• deleted - The volume is deleted.
• error - The underlying hardware related to your EBS volume has failed, and the data associated with the volume is unrecoverable.

 

For more information: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ebs-describing-volumes.html#ebs-view-information-console

AWS CLI command used to gather this information: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/ec2/describe-volumes.html