amazon-web-services - Necessary to keep snapshot when AMI exists?

Question

I'm trying to keep my snapshot storage to a minimum.

I noticed when I create an AMI a snapshot also is created.

Can I safely delete the snapshot and still use the AMI ?

Answer 1

I don't think you can.

When I went to delete the snapshot, I got the following message:

The snapshot snap-xxxx is currently in use by ami-xxxx