3.11 UnEncrypted to Encrypted AWS EBS Root Volumes using Snapshots
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Create an Encrypted EBS Volume from Unencrypted Volume with Existing data on it.
Step 1: Go to AWS EC2 Panel
Open the Amazon EC2 console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/.
Step 2: Instance State and Volume State
To create a snapshot for an Amazon EBS volume that serves as a rooted device, you before taking the snapshot.
If you don’t use your EBS storage as your root device it is enough to stop all services which are using your volume.
Actually, it is not recommended to create while data are being written and read in EBS storage. because after the snapshot was created, it would have been outdated when there is new data in EBS volume while you were creating a snapshot.
finally, you will see the state of Volume is as available.