This repo contains a CLI tool to delete all resources in an AWS account. cloud-nuke was created for situations when you might have an account you use for testing and need to clean up leftover resources so you're not charged for them. Also great for cleaning out accounts with redundant resources. Also great for removing unnecessary defaults like default VPCs and permissive ingress/egress rules in default security groups.

The currently supported functionality includes:

• Deleting all Auto scaling groups in an AWS account
• Deleting all Elastic Load Balancers (Classic and V2) in an AWS account
• Deleting all EBS Volumes in an AWS account
• Deleting all unprotected EC2 instances in an AWS account
• Deleting all AMIs in an AWS account
• Deleting all Snapshots in an AWS account
• Deleting all Elastic IPs in an AWS account
• Deleting all Launch Configurations in an AWS account
• Deleting all ECS services in an AWS account
• Deleting all EKS clusters in an AWS account
• Deleting all default VPCs in an AWS account
• Revoking the default rules in the un-deletable default security group of a VPC

• We currently do not support deleting ECS clusters because AWS does not give us a good way to blacklist clusters off the list (there are no tags and we do not know the creation timestamp). Given the destructive nature of the tool, we have opted not to support deleting ECS clusters at the moment. See gruntwork-io#36 for a more detailed discussion.

When executed as cloud-nuke aws, this tool is HIGHLY DESTRUCTIVE and deletes all resources! This mode should never be used in a production environment!

When executed as cloud-nuke defaults-aws, this tool deletes all DEFAULT VPCs and the default ingress/egress rule for all default security groups. This should be used in production environments WITH CAUTION.

1. Download the latest binary for your OS on the releases page.
2. Move the binary to a folder on your PATH. E.g.: mv cloud-nuke_darwin_amd64 /usr/local/bin/cloud-nuke.
3. Add execute permissions to the binary. E.g.: chmod u+x /usr/local/bin/cloud-nuke.
4. Test it installed correctly: cloud-nuke --help.

Simply running cloud-nuke aws will start the process of cleaning up your cloud account. You'll be shown a list of resources that'll be deleted as well as a prompt to confirm before any deletion actually takes place.

In AWS, to delete only the default resources, run cloud-nuke defaults-aws. This will remove the default VPCs in each region, and will also revoke the ingress and egress rules associated with the default security group in each VPC. Note that the default security group itself is unable to be deleted.

When using cloud-nuke aws, you can use the --region flag to target resources in certain regions for deletion. For example the following command will nuke resources only in ap-south-1 and ap-south-2 regions:

cloud-nuke aws --region ap-south-1 --region ap-south-2

Including regions is available only with cloud-nuke aws, not with cloud-nuke defaults-aws.

When using cloud-nuke aws, you can use the --exclude-region flag to exclude resources in certain regions from being deleted. For example the following command does not nuke resources in ap-south-1 and ap-south-2 regions:

cloud-nuke aws --exclude-region ap-south-1 --exclude-region ap-south-2

--region and --exclude-region flags cannot be specified together i.e. they are mutually exclusive.

Excluding regions is available only with cloud-nuke aws, not with cloud-nuke defaults-aws.

You can use the --older-than flag to only nuke resources that were created before a certain period, the possible values are all valid values for ParseDuration For example the following command nukes resources that are at least one day old:

cloud-nuke aws --older-than 24h

You can use the --list-resource-types flag to list resource types whose termination is currently supported:

cloud-nuke aws --list-resource-types

If you want to target specific resource types (e.g ec2, ami, etc.) instead of all the supported resources you can do so by specifying them through the --resource-type flag:

cloud-nuke aws --resource-type ec2 --resource-type ami

will search and target only ec2 and ami resources. The specified resource type should be a valid resource type i.e. it should be present in the --list-resource-types output. Using --resource-type also speeds up search because we are searching only for specific resource types.

Happy Nuking!!!

In order for the cloud-nuke CLI tool to access your AWS, you will need to provide your AWS credentials. You can use one of the standard AWS CLI credential mechanisms.

go test -v ./...

This code is released under the MIT License. See LICENSE.txt.