DeleteVolume

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud: 2009-07-15

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DeleteVolume

Description

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

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud Developer Guide.
[Note]Note

The volume remains in the deleting state for several minutes after you enter this command.

Request Parameters

Name Description Required

VolumeId

The ID of the volume to delete. The volume remains in the "deleting" state for several minutes after entering this command.

Type: String

Default: None

Yes

Response Elements

Name Description

DeleteVolumeResponseType

DeleteVolumeResponseType element.

Type: DeleteVolumeResponseType

Ancestor: None

Children: requestId, return

requestId

The ID of the request.

Type: xsd:string

Ancestor: DeleteVolumeResponseType

Children: None

return

Returns "true" if deletion succeeded; otherwise "false".

Type: xsd:boolean

Ancestor: DeleteVolumeResponseType

Children: None

Examples

Example Request

This example deletes volume vol-4282672b.

https://ec2.amazonaws.com/?Action=DeleteVolume&VolumeId=vol-4282672b&AuthParams

Example Response

<DeleteVolumeResponse xmlns="http://ec2.amazonaws.com/doc/2009-07-15/">
  <return>true</return>
</DeleteVolumeResponse>
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