DeleteSnapshot - Elastic Compute Service - Alibaba Cloud Documentation Center

Deletes a snapshot. If you call this operation to delete a snapshot that is being created, the snapshot creation task is canceled.

Operation description

Take note of the following items:

If the snapshot does not exist, the request is ignored.
If the snapshot has been used to create custom images, the snapshot cannot be deleted. You need to call the DeleteImage operation to delete the custom images before you can delete the snapshot.
If the snapshot has been used to create disks and Force is not specified or is set to false, the snapshot cannot be deleted directly. If you want to delete the snapshot, set Force to true to forcibly delete the snapshot. The disks created from the snapshot cannot be re-initialized after the snapshot is forcibly deleted.

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Authorization information

The following table shows the authorization information corresponding to the API. The authorization information can be used in the Action policy element to grant a RAM user or RAM role the permissions to call this API operation. Description:

Operation: the value that you can use in the Action element to specify the operation on a resource.
Access level: the access level of each operation. The levels are read, write, and list.
Resource type: the type of the resource on which you can authorize the RAM user or the RAM role to perform the operation. Take note of the following items:
- The required resource types are displayed in bold characters.
- If the permissions cannot be granted at the resource level, All Resources is used in the Resource type column of the operation.
Condition Key: the condition key that is defined by the cloud service.
Associated operation: other operations that the RAM user or the RAM role must have permissions to perform to complete the operation. To complete the operation, the RAM user or the RAM role must have the permissions to perform the associated operations.

Operation	Access level	Resource type	Condition key	Associated operation
ecs:DeleteSnapshot	delete	*Snapshot `acs:ecs:{#regionId}:{#accountId}:snapshot/{#snapshotId}`	none	none

Request parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Description	Example
SnapshotId	string	Yes	The snapshot ID.	s-bp1c0doj0taqyzzl****
Force	boolean	No	Specifies whether to force delete the snapshot that has been used to create cloud disks. Valid values: true: force deletes the snapshot. After the snapshot is force deleted, the cloud disks created from the snapshot cannot be re-initialized. false: does not force delete the snapshot. Default value: false.	false

Response parameters

Parameter	Type	Description	Example
	object
RequestId	string	The request ID.	473469C7-AA6F-4DC5-B3DB-A3DC0DE3C83E

Examples

Sample success responses

JSONformat

{
  "RequestId": "473469C7-AA6F-4DC5-B3DB-A3DC0DE3C83E"
}

Error codes

HTTP status code	Error code	Error message	Description
400	MissingParameter	The input parameter SnapshotId that is mandatory for processing this request is not supplied.	The SnapshotId parameter is required.
403	SnapshotCreatedImage	The snapshot has been used to create user defined image(s).	The snapshot has been used to create custom images and cannot be deleted. The snapshot can be deleted only after the created custom images are deleted (DeleteImage).
403	SnapshotCreatedDisk	The snapshot has been used to create disk(s).	The specified snapshot has been used to create disks, and cannot be deleted when the Force parameter is left empty or set to false. If you do want to delete the snapshot, set the Force parameter to true to force delete the snapshot. The disks created from the snapshot cannot be re-initialized after the snapshot is force deleted.
403	Operation.Conflict	The operation may conflicts with others, please retry later.	This operation conflicts with another operation. Try again later.
403	InvalidOperation.RelatedSnapshotNotFinished	The related standard snapshot is not finished.	The snapshot associated with the current snapshot has not completed. Please try again later.
403	SnapshotCreatedDisk	The snapshot that you are trying to delete is in use by one or more disks.	The snapshot that you are attempting to delete has been used to create one or more disks.
403	InvalidOperation.DeleteSharedSnapshotUnsupported	The current snapshot shares authorization with other users. Please revoke the shared authorization through resource management first.	The current snapshot is used by other users with the shared authorization. Use Resource Management to revoke the authorization before performing the operation.
403	InvalidOperation.ResourceManagedByCloudProduct	The current operation is not supported because the resource is managed by a cloud product. Please contact the relevant cloud product to confirm the reason.	This operation is not supported because the resource is managed by cloud products. Contact the corresponding cloud product to confirm the reason.
404	InvalidSnapshotId.NotFound	The specified snapshot is not found.	-
500	InternalError	The request processing has failed due to some unknown error.	An internal error has occurred. Try again later.

For a list of error codes, visit the Service error codes.

Change history

Change time	Summary of changes	Operation
2024-12-04	API Description Update. The Error code has changed	View Change Details
2024-10-16	The Error code has changed	View Change Details
2023-11-08	The Error code has changed	View Change Details