[FINAL CONFIRMATION] Deleting pre-F21 AMIs

[David Gay]

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> From: "Jay Greguske" <jgregusk at redhat.com>
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> On 03/25/2015 04:59 PM, David Gay wrote:
> > Greetings.
> > 
> > As one of the things discussed in the "AMI lifetimes" thread this
> > month, I would like to delete all Alpha, Beta, TC, RC, and other
> > scratch AMIs pre-F21 from *both* our community cloud and official
> > AWS accounts.
> > 
> > I've gotten a +1 via list, and two +1s in the meeting today. There
> > have been no objections on the list or in the meeting. This will
> > save us a notable amount in AWS storage charges.
> > 
> > Unless anyone has an objection, I'll start (carefully) deleting
> > these AMIs in 24 hours.
> > 
> > -- David _______________________________________________ cloud
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> For what it's worth, AWS prevents you from deleting an EBS snapshot
> that backs an AMI. So if you de-register the wrong one, you can still
> re-register it back from that. You'll get a different AMI ID though,
> and there is nothing I'm aware of that you can do about that.
> 
> - - Jay

Ah yeah, I recall that. The problem is the ID though, which yeah, you can't get back. Don't want to accidentally delete something people might be using in their scripts.

-- David