DeleteSnapshot

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud: 2009-04-04

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DeleteSnapshot

Description

Deletes a snapshot of an Amazon EBS volume that you own. For more information, go to the

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud Developer Guide.

Request Parameters

Name Description Required

DeleteSnapshot

DeleteSnapshot element.

Type: DeleteSnapshot

Ancestor: None

Children: snapshotId

snapshotId

The ID of the Amazon EBS snapshot to delete.

Type: xsd:string

Default: None

Ancestor: DeleteSnapshot

Children: None

Yes

Response Elements

Name Description

DeleteSnapshotResponse

DeleteSnapshotResponse element.

Type: DeleteSnapshotResponse

Ancestor: None

Children: requestId, return

requestId

The ID of the request.

Type: xsd:string

Ancestor: DeleteSnapshotResponse

Children: None

return

Returns

Type: xsd:boolean

Ancestor: DeleteSnapshotResponse

Children: None

Examples

Example Request

This example deletes snapshot snap-78a54011.

<DeleteSnapshot xmlns="http://ec2.amazonaws.com/doc/2009-04-04/">
  <snapshotId>snap-78a54011</snapshotId>
</DeleteSnapshot>

Example Response

<DeleteSnapshotResponse xmlns="http://ec2.amazonaws.com/doc/2009-04-04/">
  <return>true</return>
</DeleteSnapshotResponse>
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