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Deleting an Amazon EBS Volume

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After you no longer need a volume, you can delete it. After deletion, its data is gone and the volume can't be attached to any instance. However, before deletion, you can store a snapshot of the volume, which you can later use to recreate the volume.

This section describes how to delete a volume.

AWS Management Console

To delete a volume

Open the Amazon EC2 console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/.
Click Volumes in the Navigation pane.
The console displays a list of current volumes.
Select a volume and click Delete Volume.
A confirmation dialog box appears.
Click Yes, Delete.
The volume is deleted.

Command Line Tools

To delete a volume

Enter the following command.
```
PROMPT>  ec2-delete-volume vol-4282672b
```
Amazon EC2 returns information similar to the following example.
```
VOLUME vol-4282672b 
```

API

To delete a volume

Construct the following Query request.

https://ec2.amazonaws.com/
?Action=DeleteVolume
&VolumeId=volume-id
&...auth parameters...

Following is an example response.

<DeleteVolumeResponse xmlns="http://ec2.amazonaws.com/doc/2012-04-01/">
  <requestId>59dbff89-35bd-4eac-99ed-be587EXAMPLE</requestId> 
  <return>true</return>
</DeleteVolumeResponse>

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