From the course: AWS: Disaster Recovery

Unlock the full course today

Join today to access over 22,600 courses taught by industry experts or purchase this course individually.

Deleting a snapshot of an EC2 instance

Deleting a snapshot of an EC2 instance - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

From the course: AWS: Disaster Recovery

Start my 1-month free trial

Deleting a snapshot of an EC2 instance

“

- [Instructor] It's important to periodically delete your unwanted or unneeded snapshots in AWS. Removing old snapshots can help you to reduce clutter, and to reduce cost. So let's take a look at how it's done. Right now, I'm logged into the EC2 dashboard, and you can see my instance. What I'm going to do is go to snapshots. You can see that we have one snapshot that currently exists. So I'm going to select the snapshot, which it's already selected by default. And then I'm going to go to the actions menu, and choose the delete option. I'm prompted as to whether I'm sure that I want to delete the snapshot. I'll click "Yes Delete." And the snapshot has been deleted. So that's how you delete a snapshot in Amazon AWS EC2.

Contents