Deleting an RDS Custom for SQL Server snapshot - Amazon Relational Database Service

Deleting an RDS Custom for SQL Server snapshot

You can delete DB snapshots managed by RDS Custom for SQL Server when you no longer need them. The deletion procedure is the same for both Amazon RDS and RDS Custom DB instances.

The Amazon EBS snapshots for the binary and root volumes remain in your account for a longer time because they might be linked to some instances running in your account or to other RDS Custom for SQL Server snapshots. These EBS snapshots are automatically deleted after they're no longer related to any existing RDS Custom for SQL Server resources (DB instances or backups).

To delete a snapshot of an RDS Custom DB instance

  1. Sign in to the AWS Management Console and open the Amazon RDS console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/rds/.

  2. In the navigation pane, choose Snapshots.

  3. Choose the DB snapshot that you want to delete.

  4. For Actions, choose Delete snapshot.

  5. Choose Delete on the confirmation page.

To delete an RDS Custom snapshot, use the AWS CLI command delete-db-snapshot.

The following option is required:

  • --db-snapshot-identifier – The snapshot to be deleted

The following example deletes the my-custom-snapshot DB snapshot.

For Linux, macOS, or Unix:

aws rds delete-db-snapshot \  
  --db-snapshot-identifier my-custom-snapshot

For Windows:

aws rds delete-db-snapshot ^
  --db-snapshot-identifier my-custom-snapshot