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How to check or find unattached snapshot in AWS

Checking unattached snapshot is a good technique to save some storage cost; of course, you need to do what’s the best thing after checking unattached snapshots.

If you are confident that the snapshot won’t be needed anymore, then it has to be deleted or else you will be incurring costs for nothing.

Every space on the cloud is not free, any space usage is an added cost to your pocket.But then how do you check for unattached snapshot in AWS?

There are quite a lot of ways you can do, if you love PowerShell it can be done in PowerShell; if you want to do it in Python with Boto3 it can be done as well.

Of course, in PowerShell and Python if this is the preferred method then you need to create some code. It won’t just spit out for you what are the unattached snapshots in your AWS account.


Enough said, the easiest way to search or look for unattached snapshot is just to search using the AWS EC2 console.


Open your browser, login to your EC2 console and search for: vol-ffff

See image below:

vol-ffff will be present as volume-id for those unattached snapshots as part of the search result. Basically, if an snapshot is not attached to any volume, the volume-id will vol-ffff.


There you go no need for PowerShell and Python Boto3 to search for unattached snapshots.

Easy right? If you have to automate the checking for unattached snapshot then just get the list of all the snapshots in your account and compare the volume-id to vol-ffff. Or just simply check all snapshots and look for volume-id that matches the said value.

Any snapshots with that matching value is a snapshot that is not attached to any volumes.

Then you can decide to delete the snapshot, you just need to be very sure that you won’t look for it or it won’t be needed anymore.  Finding unattached snapshot is not so difficult at all.


Cheers. Till next time. Hope it helps. :)


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