Amazon EC2 now enables you to delete underlying EBS snapshots when deregistering AMIs

Amazon EC2 now enables you to automatically delete underlying Amazon EBS snapshots when deregistering Amazon Machine Images (AMIs), allowing you to better manage your storage costs and simplify your AMI cleanup workflow.

Previously, when deregistering an AMI, you had to separately delete its associated EBS snapshots, which required additional steps. This process could lead to abandoned snapshots, resulting in unnecessary storage costs and resource management overhead. Now you can automatically delete EBS snapshots at the time of AMI deregistration.

This capability is available to all customers at no additional costs, and is enabled in all AWS commercial regions including AWS GovCloud (US), AWS China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet, and in the AWS China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD.

You can deregister AMIs from the EC2 Console, CLI, API, or SDK, and learn more in the AMI documentation.