can't create gp2 EBS on AWS

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I have accomplished to start an instance with an ansible-playbook.
The only issue I had and could not figure out what it is,
In the “volumes:” section i have put “volume_type: gp2”.
Even though I have asked for gp2 (after looking at the documentation few times) it start an EBS IO standard.

volumes:

  • device_name: /dev/xvda
    volume_type: gp2
    volume_size: 50
    delete_on_termination: true

Ansible version 1.9.4

2

The gp2 volume_type is general purpose SSD. If you want provisioned IOPs, you need to use the volume_type of io1 and set the iops parameter. Is that what you were asking?

3

I ran into that too, it works if you also add “device_type: gp2”, the volume_type is probably for ansible 2.x