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

Resolution

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:

• Requirements when modifying volumes
• Request modifications to your EBS volumes
• Extend a Linux file system after resizing a volume

For Windows:

• Requirements when modifying volumes
• Request modifications to your EBS volumes
• Extend a Windows file system after resizing a volume

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.