---
title: "POST /#Action=DeleteDBInstance"
method: POST
path: "/#Action=DeleteDBInstance"
---

# POST /#Action=DeleteDBInstance

`POST /#Action=DeleteDBInstance`

The DeleteDBInstance action deletes a previously provisioned DB instance. When you delete a DB instance, all automated backups for that instance are deleted and can't be recovered. Manual DB snapshots of the DB instance to be deleted by `DeleteDBInstance` are not deleted.

If you request a final DB snapshot the status of the Amazon Neptune DB instance is `deleting` until the DB snapshot is created. The API action `DescribeDBInstance` is used to monitor the status of this operation. The action can't be canceled or reverted once submitted.

Note that when a DB instance is in a failure state and has a status of `failed`, `incompatible-restore`, or `incompatible-network`, you can only delete it when the `SkipFinalSnapshot` parameter is set to `true`.

You can't delete a DB instance if it is the only instance in the DB cluster, or if it has deletion protection enabled.

## Query parameters

- `Action` 'DeleteDBInstance', required
- `Version` '2014-10-31', required

## Response `200`

Success

## Other responses

- `480` — DBInstanceNotFoundFault
- `481` — InvalidDBInstanceStateFault
- `482` — DBSnapshotAlreadyExistsFault
- `483` — SnapshotQuotaExceededFault
- `484` — InvalidDBClusterStateFault

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