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Tear Down a Stack

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Recipe · 3 steps

Tear Down a Stack

with AWS CloudFormation · IT Infrastructure Management

Disable termination protection and delete a stack to completion.

  1. Disable termination protection so the subsequent DeleteStack call is not rejected.
  2. Issue the stack deletion. After this call returns the stack deletion has started and can be polled via DescribeStacks.
  3. Poll DescribeStacks until the stack is gone. End on DELETE_COMPLETE or branch to a failure end on DELETE_FAILED.
What you'll need to have ready
  • stackName: The name or unique ID of the stack to delete.
For your developer

Arazzo workflow cloudformation:teardown-stack, 3 operations: updateTerminationProtection → deleteStack → describeStacks. Specs on APIs.io.

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