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Error mounting too many volumes

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_This message was extracted from a discussion that originally took place in Gruntwork Community Slack. Names and URLs have been removed where appropriate_ **From a customer** In terraform I am attaching a bunch of volumes to an EC2 instance. I have specified the devices in the terraform as `/dev/sda` - `/dev/sdac.` All of the disks are built and attached for `/dev/sda` - `/dev/sdz` but once it gets to `/dev/sdaa` it errors out. ``` Error: Error attaching volume (vol-079ee9fac3f0a2ec4) to instance (i-072bff999f2ce6780), message: "Value (/dev/sdaa) for parameter device is invalid. /dev/sdaa is not a valid EBS device name.", code: "InvalidParameterValue" ``` Is there a limit on the number of volumes that anyone knows of?

**From a grunt** I believe the next one after `/dev/sdz` is `/dev/xvdba`. See https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/device_naming.html