Deleting retained automated backups for Amazon Aurora - Amazon Aurora
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Deleting retained automated backups for Amazon Aurora

You can delete retained automated backups when they are no longer needed. To delete a retained automated backup using the Amazon Web Services Management Console, Amazon CLI, or Amazon RDS API, use the following procedures.

To delete a retained automated backup

  1. Sign in to the Amazon Web Services Management Console and open the Amazon RDS console at https://console.amazonaws.cn/rds/.

  2. In the navigation pane, choose Automated backups.

  3. Choose the Retained tab.

    Retained automated backups interface showing backup retention settings and available recovery points.

  4. Choose the retained automated backup that you want to delete.

  5. For Actions, choose Delete.

  6. On the confirmation page, enter delete me and choose Delete.

You can delete a retained automated backup by using the Amazon CLI command delete-db-cluster-automated-backup with the following option:

  • --db-cluster-resource-id – The resource identifier for the source DB cluster.

    You can find the resource identifier for the source DB cluster of a retained automated backup by running the Amazon CLI command describe-db-cluster-automated-backups.

This example deletes the retained automated backup for the source DB cluster that has the resource ID cluster-123ABCEXAMPLE.

For Linux, macOS, or Unix:

aws rds delete-db-cluster-automated-backup \
    --db-cluster-resource-id cluster-123ABCEXAMPLE

For Windows:

aws rds delete-db-cluster-automated-backup ^
    --db-cluster-resource-id cluster-123ABCEXAMPLE

You can delete a retained automated backup by using the Amazon RDS API operation DeleteDBClusterAutomatedBackup with the following parameter:

  • DbClusterResourceId – The resource identifier for the source DB cluster.

    You can find the resource identifier for the source DB instance of a retained automated backup using the Amazon RDS API operation DescribeDBClusterAutomatedBackups.