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

The following code examples show how to use DeleteSnapshot.

CLI
Amazon CLI

To delete a snapshot

This example command deletes a snapshot with the snapshot ID of snap-1234567890abcdef0. If the command succeeds, no output is returned.

Command:

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

  • For API details, see DeleteSnapshot in Amazon CLI Command Reference.

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 Amazon 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 Amazon 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 Amazon 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 Amazon SDK for Rust API reference.

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