Deleting replicated backups for Amazon RDS - Amazon Relational Database Service
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Deleting replicated backups for Amazon RDS

You can delete replicated backups for DB instances using the Amazon RDS console. You can also use the delete-db-instance-automated-backups Amazon CLI command or the DeleteDBInstanceAutomatedBackup RDS API operation.

Delete replicated backups in the destination Region from the Automated backups page.

To delete replicated backups

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

  2. Choose the destination Region from the Region selector.

  3. In the navigation pane, choose Automated backups.

  4. On the Replicated backups tab, choose the DB instance for which you want to delete the replicated backups.

  5. For Actions, choose Delete.

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

Delete replicated backups by using the delete-db-instance-automated-backup Amazon CLI command.

You can use the describe-db-instances CLI command to find the Amazon Resource Names (ARNs) of the replicated backups. For more information, see Finding information about replicated backups for Amazon RDS.

To delete replicated backups

  • Run one of the following commands.

    For Linux, macOS, or Unix:

    aws rds delete-db-instance-automated-backup \
--db-instance-automated-backups-arn "arn:aws-cn:rds:us-east-1:123456789012:auto-backup:ab-L2IJCEXJP7XQ7HOJ4SIEXAMPLE"

    For Windows:

    aws rds delete-db-instance-automated-backup ^
--db-instance-automated-backups-arn "arn:aws-cn:rds:us-east-1:123456789012:auto-backup:ab-L2IJCEXJP7XQ7HOJ4SIEXAMPLE"

Delete replicated backups by using the DeleteDBInstanceAutomatedBackup RDS API operation with the DBInstanceAutomatedBackupsArn parameter.