How to Delete an Amazon EBS Volume

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud: 2009-10-31

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How to Delete an Amazon EBS Volume

After a volume is no longer needed, it can be deleted. Once deleted, its data is deleted and it cannot be attached to any instance. However, you can store a snapshot of the volume that you can use to recreate it later.

This section describes how to delete a volume.

How To

To delete a volume

  1. If you are using SOAP, construct the following request:

    <DeleteVolume xmlns="http://ec2.amazonaws.com/doc/2009-10-31/">
  <volumeId>volume-id</volumeId>
</DeleteVolume>

  2. If you are using Query, construct the following request:

    https://ec2.amazonaws.com/
?Action=DeleteVolume
&VolumeId=volume-id
&...auth parameters...

  3. View output similar to the following: 

    <DeleteVolumeResponse xmlns="http://ec2.amazonaws.com/doc/2009-10-31/">
  <return>true</return>
</DeleteVolumeResponse>
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