[moofight]

Yes, you are absolutely right. "EBS volumes can only be increased, not decreased".

[valdezmn]

There are third party solutions that support automatic/transparent rightsizing - both increase/decrease (FittedCloud).

[sidcool]

And I think that's fair. Decreasing would be way too risky.

[falsedan]

I fell there are better ways to protect your customers from data loss than forbidding a potentially-destructive action.

I'm quite happy to lose data, or manage my data's physical location on disk, and do online decreases… but I can't!