Amazon EC2 - Swap root instance store device with EBS device

Question

I have an EC2 instance with \"instance store\" device as a root device. Now, I would like to attach an EBS volume to that same instance, only that I want it to be the

Answer 1

I'm not sure how easy it would be to convert an existing instance, but Amazon now offers the ability to boot directly from an EBS volume when you create a new instance.