How do I detect the EBS volume type?

Question

Is it possible to detect if an attached EBS volume is using GP2 (SSD) or provisioned IOPS (io2)?

Is there a simple curl command I can issue to detect what is attached to my instance? I am on the instance that I want to run this command on.

I'd also like to do it without requiring the AWS credentials

Use instance IAM roles to avoid having to supply credentials to the AWS CLI or SDKs. — jzonthemtn

error2007s error2007s · Accepted Answer · 2016-09-09T23:55:41

There is no curl command that will let you know what is the volume type. You will either have check that through the console. Or another way is using a AWS CLI command. Also that is not possible without using AWS Credentials .

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ebs-describing-volumes.html

Using CLI Command.

aws ec2 describe-volumes

Sample Output

{
    "Volumes": [
        {
            "AvailabilityZone": "us-east-1a",
            "Attachments": [
                {
                    "AttachTime": "2013-12-18T22:35:00.000Z",
                    "InstanceId": "i-1234567890abcdef0",
                    "VolumeId": "vol-049df61146c4d7901",
                    "State": "attached",
                    "DeleteOnTermination": true,
                    "Device": "/dev/sda1"
                }
            ],
            "VolumeType": "standard",
            "VolumeId": "vol-049df61146c4d7901",
            "State": "in-use",
            "SnapshotId": "snap-1234567890abcdef0",
            "CreateTime": "2013-12-18T22:35:00.084Z",
            "Size": 8
        },
        {
            "AvailabilityZone": "us-east-1a",
            "Attachments": [],
            "VolumeType": "io1",
            "VolumeId": "vol-1234567890abcdef0",
            "State": "available",
            "Iops": 1000,
            "SnapshotId": null,
            "CreateTime": "2014-02-27T00:02:41.791Z",
            "Size": 100
        }
    ]
}

How do I detect the EBS volume type?

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