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ec2-delete-snapshot

From Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud: 2008-12-01

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ec2-delete-snapshot

Syntax

ec2-delete-snapshot snapshot_id

Description

Deletes an Amazon EBS snapshot.

Options

OptionDescriptionRequired

snapshot_id

The ID of the snapshot to delete.

Example: snap-78a54011

Yes

Output

Amazon EBS returns a table that contains the following information:

  • SNAPSHOT identifier

  • ID of the snapshot

Amazon EBS displays errors on stderr.

Example

This example deletes snapshot snap-78a54011.

PROMPT> ec2-delete-snapshot snap-78a54011
SNAPSHOT snap-78a54011

Related Topics

ec2-create-snapshot

  • ec2-describe-snapshots

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