How to Delete an Amazon EBS Snapshot From Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud: 2009-08-15 previous page next page How to Delete an Amazon EBS Snapshot After a snapshot is no longer needed, it can be deleted. This section describes how to delete a snapshot. Procedure To delete a snapshot If you are using SOAP, construct the following request: <DeleteSnapshot xmlns="http://ec2.amazonaws.com/doc/2009-08-15/"> <snapshotId>snapshot-id</snapshotId> </DeleteSnapshot> If you are using Query, construct the following request: https://ec2.amazonaws.com/ ?Action=DeleteSnapshot &SnapshotId=snapshot-id &...auth parameters... View output similar to the following: <DeleteSnapshotResponse xmlns="http://ec2.amazonaws.com/doc/2009-08-15/"> <return>true</return> </DeleteSnapshotResponse> previous page start next page