Deleting a disk snapshot

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Updated at July 31, 2026

Warning

Deleting a snapshot is permanent and cannot be undone, so you cannot recover a deleted snapshot. When you delete a snapshot, all the information it stores is erased. The data on the primary disk will remain unchanged.

To delete a snapshot:

Management console

CLI

Terraform

API

In the management console, select the folder containing your snapshot.
Navigate to Compute Cloud.
In the left-hand panel, select Snapshots.
In the line with the snapshot, click and select Delete.
In the window that opens, click Delete.

The folder used by default is the one specified when creating the CLI profile. To change the default folder, use the yc config set folder-id <folder_ID> command. You can also specify a different folder for any command using --folder-name or --folder-id. If you access a resource by its name, the search will be limited to the default folder. If you access a resource by its ID, the search will be global, i.e., through all folders based on access permissions.

See the description of the CLI commands for deleting snapshots:
```
yc compute snapshot delete --help
```

Get a list of snapshots in the default folder:

yc compute snapshot list

Result:

+----------------------+-----------------+----------------------+--------+----------------------------+
|          ID          |       NAME      |     PRODUCT IDS      | STATUS |        DESCRIPTION         |
+----------------------+-----------------+----------------------+--------+----------------------------+
| fd8rlt1u2rf0l******* | first-snapshot  | f2ecl5vhsftd******** | READY  | my first snapshot via CLI  |
| fhmolt1u2rf0******** | second-snapshot | f2eclmol5lps******** | READY  | my second snapshot via CLI |
+----------------------+-----------------+----------------------+--------+----------------------------+

Select ID or NAME of the snapshot in question.

Delete the snapshot:

yc compute snapshot delete \
  --name first-snapshot

If you do not have Terraform yet, install it and configure the Yandex Cloud provider.

To manage infrastructure using Terraform under a service account or user accounts (a Yandex account, a federated account, or a local user), authenticate using the appropriate method.

To delete a snapshot created with Terraform, follow these steps:

In the command line, go to the folder with the Terraform configuration file.
Delete the resources using this command:
```
terraform destroy
```
Alert

Terraform will delete all the resources you created in the current configuration, such as clusters, networks, subnets, and VMs.
Type yes and press Enter.

Use the delete REST API method for the Snapshot resource or the SnapshotService/Delete gRPC API call.

Deleting a disk snapshot

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