How to Expand default root drive space of EC2 Instance

 Extending the default root drive space of EC2 instance:-

By default a small type EC2 instance has C drive space of 30 GB , that is not enough for the a development server having large range of application , so we need to extend the space of EC2 root drive and thanks to Amazon that provides very simple way to do this with below steps :-

1. Stop the instance.

2. Create the snapshot of the root device

3. Create a new volume using the snapshot of the root device, but with a larger size.
Select the snapshot you have created in earlier step, enter appropriate size and click on Yes, Create button.

4. Attach the new volume to your instance as the root device (/dev/sda1):-

5. Start instance to make sure it works.