That's a terrible title, my apologies, I didn't want to make it too long and convoluted.
Basically, if you're trying to mount an attached volume that is not your primary volume to your Ubuntu server running on AWS you can't use SDF or even XVDF as your mount point, you need to use nvme1n1p1.

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