K8s also supports AWS Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes. Like the GCE Persistent Disks, EBS volumes are required to be attached to an instance running in the same availability zone. A further limitation is that EBS can only be mounted to a single instance at one time. Similarly to before, you'll need to create an EBS volume using API calls, the CLI, or you'll need to log in to the GUI manually and create the volume referenced by volumeID. If you're authorized in the AWS CLI, you can use the following command to create a volume:

$ aws ec2 create-volume --availability-zone=us-west-1a eu-west-1a --size=20 --volume-type=gp2

Make sure that your volume is created in the same region as your Kubernetes cluster!

For brevity, we will not walk through an AWS example, but a sample YAML file is included to get you started. Again, remember to create the EBS volume before your pod. Save the following code as the storage-aws.yaml file:

apiVersion: v1 
kind: Pod 
metadata: 
  name: test-aws 
spec: 
  containers: 
  - image: nginx:latest 
    ports: 
    - containerPort: 80 
    name: test-aws 
    volumeMounts: 
    - mountPath: /usr/share/nginx/html 
      name: aws-pd 
  volumes: 
  - name: aws-pd 
    awsElasticBlockStore: 
      volumeID: aws://<availability-zone>/<volume-id> 
      fsType: ext4