ec2-delete-snapshot From Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud: 2009-10-31 previous page next page ec2-delete-snapshotDescriptionDeletes a snapshot of an Amazon EBS volume that you own. For more information, go to the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud Developer Guide or Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud User Guide. Syntax ec2-delete-snapshot snapshot_id Options Name Description Required snapshot_id The ID of the Amazon EBS snapshot to delete. Type: String Default: None Example: snap-78a54011 Yes Output The command returns a table that contains the following information: SNAPSHOT identifier ID of the snapshot Amazon EC2 displays errors on stderr. Examples Example Request This example deletes snapshot snap-78a54011. PROMPT> ec2-delete-snapshot snap-78a54011 SNAPSHOT snap-78a54011 Related Operations ec2-create-snapshot ec2-describe-snapshots previous page start next page