How to Delete an Amazon EBS Snapshot From Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud: 2009-10-31 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. AWS Management Console To delete a snapshot Log in to the AWS Management Console and click the Amazon EC2 tab. Click Snapshots in the Navigation pane. The console displays a list of current snapshots. Select a snapshot and click Delete Snapshot. A confirmation dialog box appears. Click Yes, Delete. The snapshot is deleted. Command Line Tools To delete a snapshot Enter the following command. PROMPT> ec2-delete-snapshot snapshot_id Amazon EBS returns information similar to the following example. SNAPSHOT snap-78a54011 previous page start next page