I created an EC2 Windows instance with gp2 EBS volume.
But on logging into the windows system and checking on Disk Management, I don't find the added volume space under both un-allocated or primary partition.
I created the instance using an AWS launch template and the Device name of EBS was given as xvda.
What am I missing here?
Changing the name of EBS from xvda to xvdd in ec2 launch template and creating a new instance solved the issue.
Seems like any EBS Device name above C alphabetically is not shown in Disk Management, which is weird.
For those who cannot create a new instance, create a new volume from EBS volume and attach it to instance manually and restart the windows machine. Then it would come up in the Disk management.
AWS now note that:
Recommended device names for Windows: /dev/sda1 for root volume. xvd[f-p] for data volumes.
i.e. for windows EC2 EBS (non root) volumes choose from the list of "Device Name"s a name that