Clean up - Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
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Clean up

Now that you have completed the tutorial, it is good practice to clean up (delete) any resources you no longer want to use. Cleaning up Amazon resources prevents your account from incurring any further charges.

Terminate your EC2 instance

If you launched an EC2 instance specifically for this tutorial, you can terminate it to stop incurring any charges associated with it.

To terminate an instance using the console
  1. Open the Amazon EC2 console at https://console.amazonaws.cn/ec2/.

  2. In the navigation pane, choose Instances.

  3. Select the instance that you created for this tutorial, and choose Instance state, Terminate instance.

  4. Choose Terminate when prompted for confirmation.

Delete your RDS database

If you created an RDS database specifically for this tutorial, you can delete it to stop incurring any charges associated with it.

To delete an RDS database using the console
  1. Open the Amazon RDS console at https://console.amazonaws.cn/rds/.

  2. In the navigation pane, choose Databases.

  3. Select the RDS database that you created for this tutorial, and choose Actions, Delete.

  4. Enter delete me in the box, and then choose Delete.