Deleting a stack - Amazon CloudFormation
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Deleting a stack

To delete a stack, you run the aws cloudformation delete-stack command. You must specify the name of the stack that you want to delete. When you delete a stack, you delete the stack and all its resources.

The following example deletes the myteststack stack:

$ aws cloudformation delete-stack --stack-name myteststack
Note

You can't delete a stack that has termination protection enabled. For more information, see Protecting a stack from being deleted