AWS

I am using an Amazon Linux AIM so the steps below assume this is the kind of image you have. Most of the steps below actually should work on any Linux server.
It is interesting to use an EBS filesystem so your data is persisted even after termination of your server instance. Using the instance filesystem to store data from MySQL should not be interesting for a database server, as all your data would be lost in case of termination of your instance.

So you just decided to create a new EBS volume to be used with one of your Amazon AWS Instances. Why would you do this? I could think of many reasons, but the one for me is using it as a repository for my git files, so they are preserved in case my instance is shut down or corrupt.
To do this, follow the steps below:

1. Create the EBS Volume:

Go to your AWS Management Console, choose your region and find the "Elastic Block Stores"(EBS) / Volumes option.

If you use Windows to connect to your servers, the most used software to connect using SSH are usually Putty or Cygwin. This tutorial will use Putty to allow you to connect to an amazon EC2 server.
When you build your servers you created a ".pem" file which is the public-key of a specific certificate. Putty does not understand this key, so it is necessary to create a "ppk" file - Putty Private Key.