add note on EBS cleanup behavior

website/.ruby-version

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+2.2.2

website/source/docs/builders/amazon-ebs.html.markdown

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+-> **Note:** Packer users pre-built AMIs as the source for building images.
+These source AMIs may include volumes that are not flagged to be destroyed on 
+termiation of the instance building the new image. Packer will attempt to clean
+up all residual volumes that are not designated by the user to remain after
+termination. If you need to preserve those source volumes, you can overwrite the
+termination setting by specifying `delete_on_termination=false` in the 
+`launch_device_mappings` block for the device.
 
 [1]: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/APIReference/API_BlockDeviceMapping.html
 [2]: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/APIReference/API_EbsBlockDevice.html