Delete a backup vault - Amazon Backup
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Delete a backup vault

To guard against accidental or malicious mass deletion, you can delete a backup vault in Amazon Backup only after you delete (or your backup plan lifecycles) all the recovery points in your backup vault. To delete your recovery points manually, see Clean up resources.

When you delete a backup vault, update your backup plans to point to new backup vaults. A backup plan that points to a deleted backup vault will cause the backup creation to fail.

You can't delete the default backup vault or the Amazon EFS automatic backup vault using the Amazon Web Services Management Console. You can delete a default backup vault using the Amazon CLI if there is another vault in the same Region. You can delete unused snapshots in the Amazon EFS automatic backup vault.

To delete a backup vault using the Amazon Backup console

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

  2. In the navigation pane, choose Backup vaults.

  3. Choose the name of the backup vault to open its details page.

  4. Choose and delete any backups that are associated with the backup vault.

  5. Choose Delete vault. When prompted for confirmation, enter the vault name and then choose Delete Backup vault.