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add note on EBS cleanup behavior

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Clint Shryock 2015-06-19 15:56:05 -05:00
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-> **Note:** Packer users pre-built AMIs as the source for building images.
These source AMIs may include volumes that are not flagged to be destroyed on
termiation of the instance building the new image. Packer will attempt to clean
up all residual volumes that are not designated by the user to remain after
termination. If you need to preserve those source volumes, you can overwrite the
termination setting by specifying `delete_on_termination=false` in the
`launch_device_mappings` block for the device.
[1]: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/APIReference/API_BlockDeviceMapping.html
[2]: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/APIReference/API_EbsBlockDevice.html