AWS

You try to use an detached EBS volume from us-east-1b in us-east-1a, but it fails. What might be the reason?

Difficulty: unrated

Source: bregman-arie/devops-exercises by Arie Bregman

Answer

EBS volumes are locked to a specific availability zone. To use them in another availability zone, you need to take a snapshot and restore it in the destination availability zone.