How do I increase or decrease the size of my EBS volume?

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I want to increase or decrease the size of my Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume.

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You can only increase the size of your Amazon EBS volume. You can't decrease an EBS volume's size. To use a smaller volume, create a smaller volume. Then, use an application-level tool to migrate your data to the smaller volume.

For more information, see the following EBS documentation:

For Linux:

For Windows:

If you're using the AWS Software Development Kits (AWS SDKs) to modify volumes, then refer to the documentation that's specific to your AWS SDK.

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