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DeleteDBSnapshot - Amazon Relational Database Service

DeleteDBSnapshot

Deletes a DB snapshot. If the snapshot is being copied, the copy operation is terminated.

Note

The DB snapshot must be in the available state to be deleted.

Request Parameters

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

DBSnapshotIdentifier

The DB snapshot identifier.

Constraints: Must be the name of an existing DB snapshot in the available state.

Type: String

Required: Yes

Response Elements

The following element is returned by the service.

DBSnapshot

Contains the details of an Amazon RDS DB snapshot.

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

Type: DBSnapshot object

Errors

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

DBSnapshotNotFound

DBSnapshotIdentifier doesn't refer to an existing DB snapshot.

HTTP Status Code: 404

InvalidDBSnapshotState

The state of the DB snapshot doesn't allow deletion.

HTTP Status Code: 400

Examples

Example

This example illustrates one usage of DeleteDBSnapshot.

Sample Request

https://rds.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/ ?Action=DeleteDBSnapshot &DBSnapshotIdentifier=mysqldb-snap-02 &SignatureMethod=HmacSHA256 &SignatureVersion=4 &Version=2014-10-31 &X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256 &X-Amz-Credential=AKIADQKE4SARGYLE/20210623/us-east-1/rds/aws4_request &X-Amz-Date=20210623T203337Z &X-Amz-SignedHeaders=content-type;host;user-agent;x-amz-content-sha256;x-amz-date &X-Amz-Signature=619f04acffeb4b80d2f442526b1c9da79d0b3097151c24f28e83e851d6541414

Sample Response

<DeleteDBSnapshotResponse xmlns="http://rds.amazonaws.com/doc/2014-10-31/"> <DeleteDBSnapshotResult> <DBSnapshot> <Port>3306</Port> <OptionGroupName>default:mysql-5-6</OptionGroupName> <Status>deleted</Status> <Engine>mysql</Engine> <SnapshotType>manual</SnapshotType> <LicenseModel>general-public-license</LicenseModel> <DBInstanceIdentifier>mysqldb</DBInstanceIdentifier> <EngineVersion>5.6.44</EngineVersion> <DBSnapshotIdentifier>mysqldb-snap-02</DBSnapshotIdentifier> <SnapshotCreateTime>2021-04-27T08:16:05.356Z</SnapshotCreateTime> <OriginalSnapshotCreateTime>2021-04-27T08:16:05.356Z</OriginalSnapshotCreateTime> <AvailabilityZone>us-east-1a</AvailabilityZone> <InstanceCreateTime>2021-04-21T22:24:26.573Z</InstanceCreateTime> <PercentProgress>100</PercentProgress> <AllocatedStorage>100</AllocatedStorage> <MasterUsername>myawsuser</MasterUsername> </DBSnapshot> </DeleteDBSnapshotResult> <ResponseMetadata> <RequestId>7b17b2b1-ba25-11d3-a537-cef97546330c</RequestId> </ResponseMetadata> </DeleteDBSnapshotResponse>

See Also

For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

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