Request Parameters Response Elements Errors See Also

DeleteDBInstance

The DeleteDBInstance action deletes a previously provisioned DB instance. When you delete a DB instance, all automated backups for that instance are deleted and can't be recovered. Manual DB snapshots of the DB instance to be deleted by DeleteDBInstance are not deleted.

If you request a final DB snapshot the status of the Amazon Neptune DB instance is deleting until the DB snapshot is created. The API action DescribeDBInstance is used to monitor the status of this operation. The action can't be canceled or reverted once submitted.

Note that when a DB instance is in a failure state and has a status of failed, incompatible-restore, or incompatible-network, you can only delete it when the SkipFinalSnapshot parameter is set to true.

You can't delete a DB instance if it is the only instance in the DB cluster, or if it has deletion protection enabled.

Request Parameters

For information about the parameters that are common to all actions, see Common Parameters.

DBInstanceIdentifier

The DB instance identifier for the DB instance to be deleted. This parameter isn't case-sensitive.

Constraints:

Must match the name of an existing DB instance.

Type: String

Required: Yes

FinalDBSnapshotIdentifier

The DBSnapshotIdentifier of the new DBSnapshot created when SkipFinalSnapshot is set to false.

Note

Specifying this parameter and also setting the SkipFinalShapshot parameter to true results in an error.

Constraints:

Must be 1 to 255 letters or numbers.
First character must be a letter
Cannot end with a hyphen or contain two consecutive hyphens
Cannot be specified when deleting a Read Replica.

Type: String

Required: No

SkipFinalSnapshot

Determines whether a final DB snapshot is created before the DB instance is deleted. If true is specified, no DBSnapshot is created. If false is specified, a DB snapshot is created before the DB instance is deleted.

Note that when a DB instance is in a failure state and has a status of 'failed', 'incompatible-restore', or 'incompatible-network', it can only be deleted when the SkipFinalSnapshot parameter is set to "true".

Specify true when deleting a Read Replica.

Note

The FinalDBSnapshotIdentifier parameter must be specified if SkipFinalSnapshot is false.

Default: false

Type: Boolean

Required: No

Response Elements

The following element is returned by the service.

DBInstance

Contains the details of an Amazon Neptune DB instance.

This data type is used as a response element in the DescribeDBInstances action.

Type: DBInstance object

Errors

For information about the errors that are common to all actions, see Common Errors.

DBInstanceNotFound

DBInstanceIdentifier does not refer to an existing DB instance.

HTTP Status Code: 404

DBSnapshotAlreadyExists

DBSnapshotIdentifier is already used by an existing snapshot.

HTTP Status Code: 400

InvalidDBClusterStateFault

The DB cluster is not in a valid state.

HTTP Status Code: 400

InvalidDBInstanceState

The specified DB instance is not in the available state.

HTTP Status Code: 400

SnapshotQuotaExceeded

Request would result in user exceeding the allowed number of DB snapshots.

HTTP Status Code: 400