DeleteSnapshot

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud: 2009-08-15

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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

SnapshotId

The ID of the Amazon EBS snapshot to delete.

Type: String

Default: None

Yes

Response Elements

Name Description

DeleteSnapshotResponseType

DeleteSnapshotResponseType element.

Type: DeleteSnapshotResponseType

Ancestor: None

Children: requestId, return

requestId

The ID of the request.

Type: xsd:string

Ancestor: DeleteSnapshotResponseType

Children: None

return

Returns

Type: xsd:boolean

Ancestor: DeleteSnapshotResponseType

Children: None

Examples

Example Request

This example deletes snapshot snap-78a54011.

https://ec2.amazonaws.com/?Action=DeleteSnapshot&SnapshotId.1=snap-78a54011&AuthParams

Example Response

<DeleteSnapshotResponse xmlns="http://ec2.amazonaws.com/doc/2009-08-15/">
  <return>true</return>
</DeleteSnapshotResponse>
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