Delete Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager policies - Amazon EBS

Delete Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager policies

Keep the following in mind when deleting Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager policies:

  • If you delete a policy, the snapshots or AMIs created by that policy are not automatically deleted. If you no longer need the snapshots or AMIs, you must delete them manually.

  • If you delete a policy that has a snapshot archiving-enabled policy, snapshots that are in the archive tier at the time of deleting the policy are no longer managed by Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager. You must manually delete the snapshot if they are no longer needed.

  • If you delete a policy with an archive-enabled, age-based schedule, the snapshots created by the policy and that are scheduled to be archived are permanently deleted at the scheduled archive date and time, as indicated by the aws:dlm:expirationtime system tag.

Use one of the following procedures to delete a lifecycle policy.

Console
To delete a lifecycle policy

  1. Open the Amazon EC2 console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/.

  2. In the navigation pane, choose Elastic Block Store, Lifecycle Manager.

  3. Select a lifecycle policy from the list.

  4. Choose Actions, Delete lifecycle policy.

  5. When prompted for confirmation, choose Delete policy.

Command line

Use the delete-lifecycle-policy command to delete a lifecycle policy and free up the target tags specified in the policy for reuse.

Note

You can delete snapshots created only by Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager.

aws dlm delete-lifecycle-policy --policy-id policy-0123456789abcdef0

The Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager API Reference provides descriptions and syntax for each of the actions and data types for the Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager Query API.

Alternatively, you can use one of the AWS SDKs to access the API in a way that's tailored to the programming language or platform that you're using. For more information, see AWS SDKs.