# activate all ec2 instance store (ephemeral drive) **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Project\ **Created:** [February 12, 2016, 10:17pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/activate-all-ec2-instance-store-ephemeral-drive/20567 "2016-02-12T22:17:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Roy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/4da419/32.png) [@Roy](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Roy)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2016, 10:17pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/activate-all-ec2-instance-store-ephemeral-drive/20567/1 "2016-02-12T22:17:46Z")
Hi, I am trying to automate ec2 instance launch launch and mount available all instance store for any instance. [ec2\_module](http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/ec2_module.html) does have volume option which is more specific to type of instance. I didn’t find any way to tell ansible to activate all instance stores (ephemeral drive) available for the instance which it is launching. anyone know how to do this ? Thanks ---
**Author:** ![alexey.vazhnov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@alexey.vazhnov](https://forum.ansible.com/u/alexey.vazhnov)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2016, 10:37am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/activate-all-ec2-instance-store-ephemeral-drive/20567/2 "2016-02-15T10:37:00Z")
Just select your EC2 instance type, and Amazon automatically attach ephemeral disks if they available for your instance type. ---
**Author:** ![Roy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/4da419/32.png) [@Roy](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Roy)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2016, 1:55pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/activate-all-ec2-instance-store-ephemeral-drive/20567/3 "2016-02-17T13:55:27Z")
This doesn’t happen automatically. From what I know is, we need to explicitly tell to activate all instance stores (ephemeral drive) available for the instance.