Delete a topic using the Amazon CLI - Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka
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Delete a topic using the Amazon CLI

Run the following command, replacing ClusterArn with the Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of your cluster and TopicName with the name of the topic you want to delete.

aws kafka delete-topic --cluster-arn ClusterArn --topic-name TopicName

The output of this command looks like the following JSON example.

{
    "topicArn": "arn:aws:kafka:us-east-1:123456789012:topic/MyCluster/abcd1234-abcd-dcba-4321-a1b2abcd9f9f-2/MyTopic",
    "topicName": "MyTopic",
    "status": "DELETING"
}