The DeleteDBInstance action deletes a previously provisioned DB instance. When you delete a DB instance, all automated backups for that instance are deleted and cannot be recovered. Manual DB snapshots of the DB instance to be deleted by
DeleteDBInstance
are not deleted.
If you request a final DB snapshot the status of the Amazon RDS DB instance is deleting
until the DB snapshot is created. The API action DescribeDBInstance
is used to monitor the status of this operation. The action cannot be canceled or reverted once submitted.
Note that when a DB instance is in a failure state and has a status of failed
, incompatible-restore
, or incompatible-network
, you can only delete it when the SkipFinalSnapshot
parameter is set to true
.
If the specified DB instance is part of an Amazon Aurora DB cluster, you cannot delete the DB instance if the following are true:
To delete a DB instance in this case, first call the PromoteReadReplicaDBCluster API action to promote the DB cluster so it's no longer a Read Replica. After the promotion completes, then call the DeleteDBInstance
API action to delete the final instance in the DB cluster.