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Use DeleteSnapshot with an AWS SDK or CLI - Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud

Use DeleteSnapshot with an AWS SDK or CLI

The following code examples show how to use DeleteSnapshot.

Action examples are code excerpts from larger programs and must be run in context. You can see this action in context in the following code example:

CLI
AWS CLI

To delete a snapshot

The following delete-snapshot example deletes a snapshot with the snapshot ID of snap-1234567890abcdef0.

aws ec2 delete-snapshot \
    --snapshot-id snap-1234567890abcdef0

This command produces no output.

For more information, see Delete an Amazon EBS snapshot in the Amazon EBS User Guide.

PowerShell
Tools for PowerShell V4

Example 1: This example deletes the specified snapshot. You are prompted for confirmation before the operation proceeds, unless you also specify the Force parameter.

Remove-EC2Snapshot -SnapshotId snap-12345678

Output:

Confirm
Are you sure you want to perform this action?
Performing the operation "Remove-EC2Snapshot (DeleteSnapshot)" on target "snap-12345678".
[Y] Yes  [A] Yes to All  [N] No  [L] No to All  [S] Suspend  [?] Help (default is "Y"):

  • For API details, see DeleteSnapshot in AWS Tools for PowerShell Cmdlet Reference (V4).

Tools for PowerShell V5

Example 1: This example deletes the specified snapshot. You are prompted for confirmation before the operation proceeds, unless you also specify the Force parameter.

Remove-EC2Snapshot -SnapshotId snap-12345678

Output:

Confirm
Are you sure you want to perform this action?
Performing the operation "Remove-EC2Snapshot (DeleteSnapshot)" on target "snap-12345678".
[Y] Yes  [A] Yes to All  [N] No  [L] No to All  [S] Suspend  [?] Help (default is "Y"):

  • For API details, see DeleteSnapshot in AWS Tools for PowerShell Cmdlet Reference (V5).

Rust
SDK for Rust
Note

There's more on GitHub. Find the complete example and learn how to set up and run in the AWS Code Examples Repository. 

async fn delete_snapshot(client: &Client, id: &str) -> Result<(), Error> {
    client.delete_snapshot().snapshot_id(id).send().await?;

    println!("Deleted");

    Ok(())
}

  • For API details, see DeleteSnapshot in AWS SDK for Rust API reference.

For a complete list of AWS SDK developer guides and code examples, see Create Amazon EC2 resources using an AWS SDK. This topic also includes information about getting started and details about previous SDK versions.