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What is the difference between "Unmounting" and "Detaching" in AWS EBS?


I just want to know the difference between "Unmounting" and "Detaching" in AWS EBS.


Solution

  • Unmount is an operation you perform at the operating system level. It would make the EBS volume unavailable to any software running on the instance, but from a "hardware" level the volume would still be attached to the EC2 instance.

    Detach would completely disconnect the volume from the EC2 instance, and make it available to attach to a different instance.