NVitanovic / aws-purge-region

Removes all associated resources (instances, elastic ips, dedicated hosts, AMIs, VPCs, volumes, load balancers, etc.) from specific Amazon AWS region.

aws-purge-region

Removes all associated resources (instances, elastic ips, dedicated hosts, AMIs, VPCs, volumes, load balancers, etc.) from specific Amazon AWS region.

Idea

The idea behind the script is to purge all resources in an Amazon AWS region.

Pre requirements

1. You need to install AWS Command Line Interface. More info here.
2. You will need to set AWS credentials for the CLI. More info here.

Usage

Purge a single region

./aws-purge-region --single <region_name>

Purge all regions

./aws-purge-region --all

Special options

--exclude <regions_separated_by_comma>

Examples

To remove everything from US East (N. Virginia) a single region:

./aws-purge-region --single us-east-1

To remove everything except US East (N. Virginia)

./aws-purge-region --all --exclude us-east-1,us-west-1

NOTE: Info about available regions can be found here https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/rande.html.