how to resize windows ec2 root volume (c)

Question

is there an automated way to resize a windows ec2 instance root volume (c)?

1. expand the root volume by 10GB
2. extend the disk within the OS

Answer 1

There is no ideal way to do that without cloud watch metrics irrespective of ec2 or windows.

Yes, a crude way can be to utilize the windows command line du tool and run a cron job with it. and store the disk info in a file. Run grep on the file, if low disk space message is there, run your script