What effect does deleting EC2 snapshots have?

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I'm not sure what effect deleting an EC2 snapshot has on the other ones. For example, if I snapshot an EBS volume 4 times and delete the oldest one, can I still do a full restore from the latest ones? In other words, is there any benefit in keeping old snapshots other than to save incremental changes?

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The only benefit is being able to restore to the older snapshot. Deleting one snapshot does not effect any of the others. Feel free to get rid of the old ones. The new ones will still work.