What is EBS Create Volume Acquisition

This is a legacy method for acquiring EC2 instances ans associated volumes, by creating a volume from a snapshot and attaching it to an instance to acquire the data.

Data Flow Diagram: EC2 Disk Acquisition

The diagram below illustrates how EC2 disk acquisitions work.

Data Flow Diagram: EC2 Role Acquisition

If an IAM role is used for acquisition, the process is shown below.