How to Delete an Amazon EBS Volume From Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud: 2009-10-31 previous page next page 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. AWS Management Console To delete a volume Log in to the AWS Management Console and click the Amazon EC2 tab. Click Volumes in the Navigation pane. The console displays a list of current volumes. Select a volume and click Delete Volume. A confirmation dialog box appears. Click Yes, Delete. The volume is deleted. Command Line Tools To delete a volume Enter the following command. PROMPT> ec2-delete-volume vol-4282672b Amazon EBS returns information similar to the following example. VOLUME vol-4282672b previous page start next page