amazon web services - AMIs snapshots without associated volumes

Question

I have a few AMIs stored with snapshot associated with their storage definitions. However, the volumes that are associated with those snapshots have been deleted to save costs.

Can the AMIs still be used?

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65916253/amis-snapshots-without-associated-volumes

Answer 1

Yes, because snapshot is a backup of your volume. The original volume does not have to exist for the snapshot to be useful. You can always create a volume from a snapshot.

If you want to double check this, you can spin up basic t2.micro instance, take it snapshot, delete the instance and any associated volumes (root volume will be automatically deleted). Then you can launch new instance from the snapshot created.