# Help with setting ephemeral volume on EC2

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/help-with-setting-ephemeral-volume-on-ec2/18923>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [August 3, 2015, 6:37am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/help-with-setting-ephemeral-volume-on-ec2/18923 "2015-08-03T06:37:42Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Tzach\_Livyatan1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9fc29f/32.png) [@Tzach\_Livyatan1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Tzach_Livyatan1)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2015, 6:37am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/help-with-setting-ephemeral-volume-on-ec2/18923/1 "2015-08-03T06:37:42Z")

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I’m struggling with adding ephemeral volume to EC2 instance on creation  
Base on examples, I use the following task, but its look like its ignored with out any error message.  
What am I’m doing wrong?

Thanks

`

- name: Launch instances  
local\_action:  
module: ec2  
region: “{{region}}”  
keypair: “{{key\_name}}”  
group: “{{security\_group}}”  
instance\_type: “{{instance\_type}}”  
image: “{{image}}”  
count: “{{cluster\_nodes}}”  
volumes:
- device\_name: /dev/xvdb  
ephemeral: ephemeral0
- device\_name: /dev/xvdc  
ephemeral: ephemeral1  
wait: yes  
register: ec2\_cluster

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**Author:** ![Tzach\_Livyatan1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9fc29f/32.png) [@Tzach\_Livyatan1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Tzach_Livyatan1)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2015, 6:38am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/help-with-setting-ephemeral-volume-on-ec2/18923/2 "2015-08-03T06:38:34Z")

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I’m using ansible 1.9.1

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**Author:** ![Roy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/4da419/32.png) [@Roy](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Roy)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2016, 7:21pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/help-with-setting-ephemeral-volume-on-ec2/18923/3 "2016-02-11T19:21:05Z")

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What type of instance you are using, because not all instances comes with ephemeral