I signed up for a trial of Amazon EC2 and created a new instance with all the defaults. Upon first login the 30GB C: Drive only had 150 megs free. I went ahead and created a new volume and have a D drive, but when I tried to download some installation files in IE they won't even download to the D drive. It acts like it does, but then it says it's corrupt. I'm assuming because the C drive is full. By the way, it is full now. 0 bytes free.
So, what do I do? I don't want to get charged. Did I miss something?
update I created a new instance, during the storage part of the wizard, this message is prominently displayed:
Free tier eligible customers can get up to 30 GB of EBS General Purpose (SSD) or Magnetic storage. Learn more about free usage tier eligibility and usage restrictions.
Best Answer
A default Windows instance based on modern AMI images is 30 GB. This is smaller than the old default of 35 GB. Under the free-tier, you can get 30 GB of EBS volume space each month. But you can have more EBS volume space if you want; you'll just pay for any extra.
Once the volume is full, the volume cannot be resized. However, there are 2 options that you can use to get more space available in your C: drive.
Option 1:
EBS volumes cannot be resized. However, you can simulate a resize of the volume.
Option 2:
Create an AMI image of your EC2 instance and launch a new EC2 instance giving your root volume more space.