ec2-delete-volume

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud: 2009-07-15

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ec2-delete-volume

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.

Syntax

ec2-delete-volume volume_id

Options

Name Description Required

volume_id

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

Example: vol-4282672b

Yes

Output

The command returns a table that contains the following information:

  • VOLUME identifier

  • ID of the volume you deleted

Amazon EC2 displays errors on stderr.

Examples

Example Request

This example deletes volume vol-4282672b.

PROMPT> ec2-delete-volume vol-4282672b
VOLUME vol-4282672b
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