title: Reattaching an EBS volume to a new instance that was previously accidentally deleted
body: <p>Just want to preface this question by saying I've checked a few other similar questions but none really answered mine.</p>
  
  <p>So the situation (hypothetically) is this: I have an EC2 instance running with one EBS volume as his root device. I forgot to turn on termination protection, oops, and I accidentally delete my server. Luckily, I set my EBS volume to persist after termination (<strong>sidequestion, can you verify this setting without using the API?)</strong></p>
  
  <p>Now, I have an AMI that is a week old. So I want to create a new EC2 instance, <strong>but</strong> I want to attach the orphaned EBS volume to it, since that has the newest data, settings and whatnot. <strong>How can I achieve this?</strong></p>
  
  <p>Am I missing some information here? Is the EC2 instance just a shell, where the EBS volume is essentially my server? Should I just take a snapshot from my EBS volume, create an AMI from that and then launch a new instance that will be the same as the orphaned one?</p>
  
  <p>And while I'm here asking questions, one for the road; <strong>You can either create a volume or an image from a snapshot, why would you prefer one over the other?</strong></p>
  
  <p>Thank you in advance.</p>