ec2-delete-volume

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud: 2009-10-31

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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 or Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud User 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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