marcoaguzzi.it

Requirement

Once that the pipeline has been put in place for the main url, I needed to get rid of the account that originally contained the marcoaguzzi.it domain. Instead of only closing the AWS account, I wanted to clean the account of all the resources I created in the attempts. This could also be useful when a test account is used and periodically it should be wiped out, in order not to incur in costs for the provisioned resources. This is well presented in this article: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/prescriptive-guidance/latest/patterns/automate-deletion-of-aws-resources-by-using-aws-nuke.html

Solution

One intersting tool is aws-nuke: it scans all the resources created in an AWS account and deletes them, if it’s allowed to.
The name sounds quite menacing, but there is a couple of caveats that will (should?) prevent the user from doing the irreparable damage.

How it went