DeleteSnapshot

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud: 2008-08-08

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DeleteSnapshot

The DeleteSnapshot operation deletes a snapshot of an Amazon EBS volume that is stored in Amazon S3. For more information, see Amazon Elastic Block Store.

Request Parameters

The following table describes the request parameters for DeleteSnapshot. Parameter names are case sensitive.

Name Description Required

Name	Description	Required
`snapshotId`	The ID of the Amazon EBS snapshot to delete Type: xsd:string Default: none Valid Values: ID of a snapshot that you own Constraints: none	Yes

snapshotId

The ID of the Amazon EBS snapshot to delete

Type: xsd:string

Default: none

Valid Values: ID of a snapshot that you own

Constraints: none

Yes

Response Elements

The following table describes the default response tags included in DeleteSnapshot responses.

Name Description

Name	Description
`return`	`true` if deletion succeeded. Type: xsd:boolean

return

true if deletion succeeded.

Type: xsd:boolean

Sample Request

<DeleteSnapshot xmlns="http://ec2.amazonaws.com/doc/2008-08-08">
  <snapshotId>snap-78a54011</snapshotId>
</DeleteSnapshot>

Sample Response

<DeleteSnapshotResponse xmlns="http://ec2.amazonaws.com/doc/2008-08-08">
  <return>true</return>
</DeleteSnapshotResponse>

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