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AWS Nuke for destroy all resources

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I have a test aws account where I'm trying out Terraform. I have untracked resources I want to delete. Is it safe to use AWS nuke?

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Hello.

Using "aws-nuke" may also delete all unexpected AWS resources.
Therefore, if you know the AWS resources you want to delete, I think it is better to delete them individually without using "aws-nuke".

In your case, it is a test environment, so if you can judge that there is no problem even if all resources disappear, I think you can use it.
https://github.com/rebuy-de/aws-nuke

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  • I want to delete all resources created. In that case what are unexpected resources?

  • I think you can use it if you want to delete all resources. The IAM user itself will remain, but the IAM user's access keys, IAM groups, etc. will disappear. Therefore, depending on how the IAM user is configured, it is possible that the IAM user may become unusable. If you can no longer perform operations as an IAM user, you will need to sign in as the root user.

  • The active aws-nuke project can now be found at https://github.com/ekristen/aws-nuke

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