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Deleting CloudFormation Stacks using a shell script
I am writing a shell script to delete a handful stacks using the cli command "aws cloudformation delete-stack --stack-name <stack1>".
When I try to delete the stacks one after the other, only the first one gets deleted and ignores the subsequent stacks. This behavior is precisely same as the management console.
I tried to run each command as a background process in the shell script but the result is still the same. When I delete the stacks one after the other in command prompt it worked fine.
Any thoughts/pointers are appreciated.
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The solution to this issue is to use Cloudformation's "wait". I have resolved this issue by using "aws cloudformation wait stack-delete-complete --stack-name "$stack" after every stack delete. This works fine within a shell script if you have to delete more than one CloudFormation stack.
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