ekristen/aws-nuke
Remove all the resources from an AWS account
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Where it stands
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5 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 30 days ago, with 176 contributors on GitHub.
Gained 55% fewer stars in the last 90 days than in the 90 days before.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Removes all resources from an AWS account to enable complete cleanup.
- Provides a stable, well-tested library-based tool with extensive resource coverage and improved maintainability.
- Use for cleaning up AWS accounts before decommissioning or repurposing them to avoid leftover resources.
- Use for automating AWS resource removal in CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions or CLI integration.
- Use for managing multi-region AWS resource deletions with global filters and nested CloudFormation stack support.
Should you depend on it?
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License
MIT
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution.
Community files
- README: present
- Contributing guide: present
Watch-outs
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From the README
Remove all resources from an AWS account.
aws-nuke is stable, but it is likely that not all AWS resources are covered by it. Be encouraged to add missing resources and create a Pull Request or to create an Issue.
Version 3 is a rewrite of this tool using libnuke with a focus on improving a number of the outstanding things that I couldn't get done with the original project without separating out the core code into a library. See Goals below for more.
Daily snapshots
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Forks
155+18
Open issues
148+16
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| ekristen/aws-nuke | 1.4K | — | 58 | 30 days ago |
| Category median | 14.7K | +233 | 63 | — |
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