Deleting an Aurora Serverless v1 DB cluster - Amazon Aurora
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Deleting an Aurora Serverless v1 DB cluster

When you create an Aurora Serverless v1 DB cluster using the Amazon Web Services Management Console, the Enable default protection option is enabled by default unless you deselect it. That means that you can't immediately delete an Aurora Serverless v1 DB cluster that has Deletion protection enabled. To delete Aurora Serverless v1 DB clusters that have deletion protection by using the Amazon Web Services Management Console, you first modify the cluster to remove this protection. For information about using the Amazon CLI for this task, see Amazon CLI.

To disable deletion protection using the Amazon Web Services Management Console

  1. Sign in to the Amazon Web Services Management Console and open the Amazon RDS console at https://console.amazonaws.cn/rds/.

  2. In the navigation pane, choose DB clusters.

  3. Choose your Aurora Serverless v1 DB cluster from the list.

  4. Choose Modify to open your DB cluster's configuration. The Modify DB cluster page opens the Settings, Capacity settings, and other configuration details for your Aurora Serverless v1 DB cluster. Deletion protection is in the Additional configuration section.

  5. Clear the Enable deletion protection check box in the Additional configuration properties card.

  6. Choose Continue. The Summary of modifications appears.

  7. Choose Modify cluster to accept the summary of modifications. You can also choose Back to modify your changes or Cancel to discard your changes.

After deletion protection is no longer active, you can delete your Aurora Serverless v1 DB cluster by using the Amazon Web Services Management Console.

To delete an Aurora Serverless v1 DB cluster

  1. Sign in to the Amazon Web Services Management Console and open the Amazon RDS console at https://console.amazonaws.cn/rds/.

  2. In the Resources section, choose DB Clusters.

  3. Choose the Aurora Serverless v1 DB cluster that you want to delete.

  4. For Actions, choose Delete. You're prompted to confirm that you want to delete your Aurora Serverless v1 DB cluster.

  5. We recommend that you keep the preselected options:

    • Yes for Create final snapshot?

    • Your Aurora Serverless v1 DB cluster name plus -final-snapshot for Final snapshot name. However, you can change the name for your final snapshot in this field.

    Screenshot of deleting Aurora Serverless v1 database cluster

    If you choose No for Create final snapshot? you can't restore your DB cluster using snapshots or point-in-time recovery.

  6. Choose Delete DB cluster.

Aurora Serverless v1 deletes your DB cluster. If you chose to have a final snapshot, you see your Aurora Serverless v1 DB cluster's status change to "Backing-up" before it's deleted and no longer appears in the list.

Before you begin, configure your Amazon CLI with your Amazon Access Key ID, Amazon Secret Access Key, and the Amazon Web Services Region where your Aurora Serverless v1 DB cluster is. For more information, see Configuration basics in the Amazon Command Line Interface User Guide.

You can't delete an Aurora Serverless v1 DB cluster until after you first disable deletion protection for clusters configured with this option. If you try to delete a cluster that has this protection option enabled, you see the following error message. 

An error occurred (InvalidParameterCombination) when calling the DeleteDBCluster
  operation: Cannot delete protected Cluster, please disable deletion protection and try again.

You can change your Aurora Serverless v1 DB cluster's deletion-protection setting by using the modify-db-cluster Amazon CLI command as shown in the following: 

aws rds modify-db-cluster --db-cluster-identifier your-cluster-name --no-deletion-protection

This command returns the revised properties for the specified DB cluster. You can now delete your Aurora Serverless v1 DB cluster.

We recommend that you always create a final snapshot whenever you delete an Aurora Serverless v1 DB cluster. The following example of using the Amazon CLI delete-db-cluster shows you how. You provide the name of your DB cluster and a name for the snapshot.

For Linux, macOS, or Unix:

aws rds delete-db-cluster --db-cluster-identifier \
  your-cluster-name --no-skip-final-snapshot \
  --final-db-snapshot-identifier name-your-snapshot

For Windows:

aws rds delete-db-cluster --db-cluster-identifier ^
  your-cluster-name --no-skip-final-snapshot ^
  --final-db-snapshot-identifier name-your-snapshot