Let's Nuke - AWS Account

DAY 36 - Let’s Nuke AWS - Day Thirty-Six

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A step-by-step tutorial to Delete Everything from an AWS Account

Prerequisites

• Make sure you remove the account from the organisations.

• Get your access keys for CLI , check out this link to see How to

• Now Goto repository, clink on releases, select your appropriate file, and right-click copy.

I am using Linux so selecting cloud-nuke_linux_amd64,

Setup the nuke plant

• Now on your system create a folder called nuke, then cd into it

wget https://github.com/gruntwork-io/cloud-nuke/releases/download/v0.16.2/cloud-nuke_linux_amd64 

• Check the folder once copied the file us ls
• lets rename the folder to aws-nuke mv cloud-nuke_linux_amd64 aws-nuke

• Change folder permissions

sudo chmod 777 aws-nuke

• lets copy this to /usr/bin

sudo cp aws-nuke /usr/bin

• verify the package

aws-nuke

You will be able to similar result as shown in the screenshot

Now lets enter the magic command

aws-nuke aws

We are not done yet,

let's nuke kaboooooom...

It will preview all the services gonna be destroyed

you will be prompted to confirm....

nuke

confirm by typing nuke

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