# Deleting a cluster
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As long as a cluster is in the *available* state, you are being charged for it, whether or not you are actively using it. To stop incurring charges, delete the cluster.

**Warning**  
When you delete an ElastiCache cluster, your manual snapshots are retained. You can also create a final snapshot before the cluster is deleted. Automatic cache snapshots are not retained. For more information, see [Snapshot and restore](backups.md).
`CreateSnapshot` permission is required to create a final snapshot. Without this permission, the API call will fail with an `Access Denied` exception.

## Using the Amazon Web Services Management Console
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The following procedure deletes a single cluster from your deployment. To delete multiple clusters, repeat the procedure for each cluster that you want to delete. You do not need to wait for one cluster to finish deleting before starting the procedure to delete another cluster.

**To delete a cluster**

1. Sign in to the Amazon Web Services Management Console and open the Amazon ElastiCache console at [https://console.amazonaws.cn/elasticache/](https://console.amazonaws.cn/elasticache/).

1. In the ElastiCache engine dashboard, choose Valkey or Redis OSS.

   A list of all caches running on that engine appears.

1. To choose the cluster to delete, choose the cluster's name from the list of clusters. In this case, the name of the cluster you created at [Step 2: Create a cluster](SubnetGroups.designing-cluster-pre.valkey.md#GettingStarted.CreateCluster.valkey).
**Important**  
You can only delete one cluster at a time from the ElastiCache console. Choosing multiple clusters disables the delete operation.

1. For **Actions**, choose **Delete**.

1. In the **Delete Cluster** confirmation screen, type the name of the cluster and choose **Final Backup**. Then choose **Delete** to delete the cluster, or choose **Cancel** to keep the cluster.

   If you chose **Delete**, the status of the cluster changes to *deleting*.

As soon as your cluster is no longer listed in the list of clusters, you stop incurring charges for it.

## Using the Amazon CLI
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The following code deletes the cluster `my-cluster`. In this case, substitute `my-cluster` with the name of the cluster you created at [Step 2: Create a cluster](SubnetGroups.designing-cluster-pre.valkey.md#GettingStarted.CreateCluster.valkey).

```
aws elasticache delete-cache-cluster --cache-cluster-id my-cluster
```

The `delete-cache-cluster` CLI action only deletes one cluster. To delete multiple clusters, call `delete-cache-cluster` for each cache cluster that you want to delete. You do not need to wait for one cluster to finish deleting before deleting another.

For Linux, OS X, or Unix:

```
aws elasticache delete-cache-cluster \
    --cache-cluster-id my-cluster \
    --region us-east-2
```

For Windows:

```
aws elasticache delete-cache-cluster ^
    --cache-cluster-id my-cluster ^
    --region us-east-2
```

For more information, see the Amazon CLI for ElastiCache topic [https://docs.amazonaws.cn/cli/latest/reference/elasticache/delete-cache-cluster.html](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/cli/latest/reference/elasticache/delete-cache-cluster.html).