Clean up your AMI Snapshots

AMI Snapshots

#source : http://kloudrocks.com/

# Unregister and clean AMI snapshots
$amiName = 'ami-XXXX' # replace this with the AMI ID you need to clean-up
$myImage = Get-EC2Image $amiName
$count = $myImage[0].BlockDeviceMapping.Count
 
# Loop and store snapshotID(s) to an array
$mySnaps = @()
for ($i=0; $i -lt $count; $i++)
{
   $snapId = $myImage[0].BlockDeviceMapping[$i].Ebs | foreach {$_.SnapshotId}
   $mySnaps += $snapId
}
 
# Perform the clean up
Write-Host "Unregistering" $amiName
Unregister-EC2Image $amiName
foreach ($item in $mySnaps)
{
   Write-Host 'Removing' $item
   Remove-EC2Snapshot $item
}
 
Clear-Variable mySnaps