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Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling LaunchConfiguration BlockDeviceMapping

The Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling BlockDeviceMapping type is an embedded property of the AWS::AutoScaling::LaunchConfiguration type.

Syntax

JSON

{
   "DeviceName" : String,
   "Ebs" : AutoScaling EBS Block Device,
   "NoDevice" : Boolean,
   "VirtualName" : String
}

YAML

DeviceName: String
Ebs:
  AutoScaling EBS Block Device
NoDevice: Boolean
VirtualName: String

Properties

Note

For more information about the constraints and valid values of each property, see Ebs in the Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling API Reference.

DeviceName

The name of the device within Amazon EC2.

Required: Yes

Type: String

Ebs

The Amazon Elastic Block Store volume information.

Required: Conditional You can specify either VirtualName or Ebs, but not both.

Type: Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling LaunchConfig BlockDevice.

NoDevice

Suppresses the device mapping. If NoDevice is set to true for the root device, the instance might fail the Amazon EC2 health check. Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling launches a replacement instance if the instance fails the health check.

Required: No

Type: Boolean

VirtualName

The name of the virtual device. The name must be in the form ephemeralX where X is a number starting from zero (0), for example, ephemeral0.

Required: Conditional You can specify either VirtualName or Ebs, but not both.

Type: String

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