Script to create a ton of EBS volumes (eg for a RAID setup); requires awscli available from pip

gistfile1.txt

for i in {1..8}; do aws ec2 create-volume --availability-zone us-east-1d --size 128 --output text >> _disks; done

(i=0; for d in `awk '{print $4}' _disks`; do i=$((i + 1)); aws ec2 create-tags --resources ${d} --tags '{"key":"Name", "value": "_disks"}'; aws ec2 attach-volume --instance-id i-xxxxxxxx --volume-id ${d} --device /dev/sdg${i}; done)