Deleting a snapshot - Amazon MemoryDB
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Deleting a snapshot

An automatic snapshot is automatically deleted when its retention limit expires. If you delete a cluster, all of its automatic snapshots are also deleted.

MemoryDB provides a deletion API operation that lets you delete a snapshot at any time, regardless of whether the snapshot was created automatically or manually. Because manual snapshots don't have a retention limit, manual deletion is the only way to remove them.

You can delete a snapshot using the MemoryDB console, the Amazon CLI, or the MemoryDB API.

The following procedure deletes a snapshot using the MemoryDB console.

To delete a snapshot

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

  2. In the left navigation pane, choose Snapshots.

    The Snapshots screen appears with a list of your snapshots.

  3. Choose the radio button to the left of the name of the snapshot you want to delete.

  4. Choose Actions and then choose Delete.

  5. If you want to delete this snapshot, enter delete in the text box and then choose Delete. To cancel the delete, choose Cancel. The status changes to deleting.

Use the delete-snapshot Amazon CLI operation with the following parameter to delete a snapshot.

  • --snapshot-name – Name of the snapshot to be deleted.

The following code deletes the snapshot myBackup.

aws memorydb delete-snapshot --snapshot-name myBackup

For more information, see delete-snapshot in the Amazon CLI Command Reference.

Use the DeleteSnapshot API operation with the following parameter to delete a snapshot.

  • SnapshotName – Name of the snapshot to be deleted.

The following code deletes the snapshot myBackup.

https://memory-db.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/
   ?Action=DeleteSnapshot
   &SignatureVersion=4
   &SignatureMethod=HmacSHA256
   &SnapshotName=myBackup
   &Timestamp=20210802T192317Z
   &Version=2021-01-01
   &X-Amz-Credential=<credential>

For more information, see DeleteSnapshot.