Disable Multi-Attach for an Amazon EBS volume - Amazon EBS
This documentation is a draft for private preview for regions in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud. Documentation content will continue to evolve. Published: December 31, 2025.

Disable Multi-Attach for an Amazon EBS volume

You can disable Multi-Attach for an io2 volume only if it is attached to no more than one instance.

You can't disable Multi-Attach for io1 volumes after creation.

Console
To disable Multi-Attach after creation

  1. Open the Amazon EC2 console at https://eusc-de-east-1.console.amazonaws-eusc.eu/ec2/.

  2. In the navigation pane, choose Volumes.

  3. Select the volume and choose Actions, Modify volume.

  4. For Amazon EBS Multi-Attach, clear Enable Multi-Attach.

  5. Choose Modify.

AWS CLI
To disable Multi-Attach after creation

Use the modify-volume command with the -no-multi-attach-enabled option.

aws ec2 modify-volume \
    --volume-id vol-01234567890abcdef \
    --no-multi-attach-enabled
PowerShell
To disable Multi-Attach after creation

Use the Edit-EC2Volume cmdlet with the -MultiAttachEnabled parameter.

Edit-EC2Volume `
    -VolumeId vol-01234567890abcdef `
    -MultiAttachEnabled $false