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Unlock an Amazon EBS snapshot - Amazon EBS

Unlock an Amazon EBS snapshot

You can unlock a snapshot only if it is locked in governance mode, or if it is locked in compliance mode and it is still within the cooling-off period.

Console
To unlock a snapshot

  1. Open the Amazon EC2 console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/.

  2. In the navigation pane, choose Snapshots.

  3. Select the snapshot to unlock and choose Actions, Snapshot settings, Manage snapshot lock.

  4. Choose Unlock snapshot and then choose Unlock snapshot again to confirm.

AWS CLI
To unlock a snapshot

Use the unlock-snapshot command.

aws ec2 unlock-snapshot --snapshot-id snap-0abcdef1234567890
PowerShell
To unlock a snapshot

Use the Unlock-EC2Snapshot cmdlet.

Unlock-EC2Snapshot -SnapshotId snap-0abcdef1234567890