Use DescribeVolumeAttribute with an Amazon SDK or CLI - Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
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Use DescribeVolumeAttribute with an Amazon SDK or CLI

The following code examples show how to use DescribeVolumeAttribute.

CLI
Amazon CLI

To describe a volume attribute

This example command describes the autoEnableIo attribute of the volume with the ID vol-049df61146c4d7901.

Command:

aws ec2 describe-volume-attribute --volume-id vol-049df61146c4d7901 --attribute autoEnableIO

Output:

{
    "AutoEnableIO": {
        "Value": false
    },
    "VolumeId": "vol-049df61146c4d7901"
}
PowerShell
Tools for PowerShell

Example 1: This example describes the specified attribute of the specified volume.

Get-EC2VolumeAttribute -VolumeId vol-12345678 -Attribute AutoEnableIO

Output:

AutoEnableIO    ProductCodes    VolumeId
------------    ------------    --------
False           {}              vol-12345678

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