Automatically mount an EBS volume upon starting an Amazon EC2 Linux instance

Question

I have an EBS volume (e.g. /dev/sdf) that has been attached to an EC2 instance (which boots from a different EBS volume), and I have mounted the volume (through

Answer 1

It would seem that the official ec2 documentation now recommends plain old fstab entries with nofail -

/dev/xvdf       /data   ext4    defaults,nofail        0       2

ref - http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ebs-using-volumes.html