Recover deleted Amazon EBS snapshots and EBS-backed AMIs with Recycle Bin - Amazon EBS
Supported resourcesQuotasRelated servicesPricing

Recover deleted Amazon EBS snapshots and EBS-backed AMIs with Recycle Bin

Recycle Bin is a data recovery feature that enables you to restore accidentally deleted Amazon EBS snapshots and EBS-backed AMIs. When using Recycle Bin, if your resources are deleted, they are retained in the Recycle Bin for a time period that you specify before being permanently deleted.

You can restore a resource from the Recycle Bin at any time before its retention period expires. After you restore a resource from the Recycle Bin, the resource is removed from the Recycle Bin and you can use it in the same way that you use any other resource of that type in your account. If the retention period expires and the resource is not restored, the resource is permanently deleted from the Recycle Bin and it is no longer available for recovery.

Using Recycle Bin helps to ensure business continuity by protecting your business-critical data against accidental deletion.

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Supported resources

Recycle Bin supports the following resource types:

  • Amazon EBS snapshots

    Important

    Recycle Bin retention rules also apply to archived snapshots in the archive storage tier. If you delete an archived snapshot that matches a retention rule, that snapshot is retained in the Recycle Bin for the period defined in the retention rule. Archived snapshots are billed at the rate for archived snapshots while they are in the Recycle Bin.

  • Amazon EBS-backed Amazon Machine Images (AMIs)

    Note

    Retention rules also apply to disabled AMIs.

Quotas

The following quotas apply to Recycle Bin.

Quota Default quota

Retention rules per Region

 250

Tag key and value pairs per retention rule

 50

Related services

Recycle Bin works with the following services:

Pricing

There are noadditional charges for using Recycle Bin and retention rules. For more information, see Amazon EBS pricing.

  • Amazon EBS snapshots — Snapshots in the Recycle Bin are billed at the same rate as regular snapshots in your account.

  • EBS-backed AMIs — AMIs in the Recycle Bin do not incur any additional charges.

Note

Some resources might still appear in the Recycle Bin console or in the AWS CLI and API output for a short period after their retention periods have expired and they have been permanently deleted. You are not billed for these resources. Billing stops as soon as the retention period expires.

You can use the following AWS generated cost allocation tags for cost tracking and allocation purposes when using AWS Billing and Cost Management.

  • Key: aws:recycle-bin:resource-in-bin

  • Value: true

For more information, see AWS-generated cost allocation tags in the AWS Billing and Cost Management User Guide.