What happens when I delete the first of several AWS EBS snapshots?
- by Jepper
On http://aws.amazon.com/ebs/pricing/
it says:
"EBS Snapshots
[...] For the first snapshot of a volume, Amazon EBS saves a full copy of your data to Amazon S3. For each incremental snapshot, only the changed part of your Amazon EBS volume is saved."
I intend to snapshot some of my instances daily and keep snapshots for 7 days after which the snapshots are destroyed.
What happens when, eventually, I destroy the first snapshot? Will the subsequent snapshots be worthless given the first is no longer available?