--- title: Creating Persistent Storage in Amazon's EBS --- This section describes how to set up Amazon's Elastic Block Store in EC2. 1. From the EC2 console, go to the **ELASTIC BLOCK STORE** section in the left panel and click **Volumes**. 1. Click **Create Volume**. 1. Optional: Configure the size of the volume or other options. The volume should be created in the same availability zone as the instance it will be attached to. 1. Click **Create Volume**. 1. Click **Close**. **Result:** Persistent storage has been created. For details on how to set up the newly created storage in Rancher, refer to the section on [setting up existing storage.](../../../new-user-guides/manage-clusters/create-kubernetes-persistent-storage/manage-persistent-storage/set-up-existing-storage.md)