How to Delete an Amazon EBS Snapshot

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud: 2009-10-31

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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

  1. Log in to the AWS Management Console and click the Amazon EC2 tab.

  2. Click Snapshots in the Navigation pane.

    The console displays a list of current snapshots.

  3. Select a snapshot and click Delete Snapshot.

    A confirmation dialog box appears.

  4. 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
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