How do I restore my deleted Amazon EBS volume or snapshot?

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After you delete an Amazon EBS volume, its data is permanently deleted and you can't restore the volume. If you created an Amazon EBS snapshot of the volume, then you can use the snapshot to recreate the volume and recover the data. It's a best practice to create snapshots of your volumes to prevent data loss.

If you deleted your snapshot, then you can recover it only if you have activated Recycle Bin in the AWS Region where your resources are.

To restore your snapshot from the Recycle Bin, see the following instructions:

• Considerations for Recycle Bin
• Permissions for working with snapshots in the Recycle Bin
• Restore snapshots from the Recycle Bin

After you restore the snapshot from the Recycle Bin, you can create a volume from the snapshot and recover the volume's data.