Clearing Elastic Block Store Volumes

[Jake Wasdin]

I don't recall this happening in the past, but it seems that each time an EC2 instance is being spun up, it is creating a EBS volume that is not being automatically deleted. This is taking up a lot of space, and has started to become an issue now that we can have 5 EC2 instances running at the same time and are often shutting these down and starting them up.

How can I make this volumes clear automatically when the instance is shut down?

Here is a screenshot showing what I am talking about.

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[Przemek Bruski · Accepted solution]

Are these custom EBS AMIs? Did you tick off the "delete on termination" checkbox when creating them?

[Jake Wasdin]

Ah! That was it. I had not noticed that. Another team member had unchecked that on our latest custom AMI which had been left checked prior. Thanks.