delete_instance

delete_instance(**kwargs)

Deletes a specified instance, which terminates the associated Amazon EC2 instance. You must stop an instance before you can delete it.

For more information, see Deleting Instances.

Required Permissions : To use this action, an IAM user must have a Manage permissions level for the stack, or an attached policy that explicitly grants permissions. For more information on user permissions, see Managing User Permissions.

See also: AWS API Documentation

Request Syntax

response = client.delete_instance(
    InstanceId='string',
    DeleteElasticIp=True|False,
    DeleteVolumes=True|False
)

Parameters

• InstanceId (string) --

  [REQUIRED]

  The instance ID.

• DeleteElasticIp (boolean) -- Whether to delete the instance Elastic IP address.
• DeleteVolumes (boolean) -- Whether to delete the instance's Amazon EBS volumes.

Returns

None

Exceptions

• OpsWorks.Client.exceptions.ValidationException
• OpsWorks.Client.exceptions.ResourceNotFoundException