The nuclear option to housekeeping
cloud-nuke is a tool you can use to completely obliterate resources in your AWS account. That’s right. Completely. Obliterate.
Why on earth would you want to do that, I hear you cry? We’re in the business of building clouds, not destroying them. Well, there are actually several very good reasons.
Several very good reasons
- Training accounts
We have an AWS account we call “The Playground.” The sole purpose of the playground account is to facilitate training and skill development for our staff. It’s a great tool to have, but inevitably, someone creates resources and then forgets about them. They then sit there wasting energy and money. Nuke ‘em!
- Decommissions
Every so often, we need to wind down an AWS account completely. I’ve often spent a day or more going through the bills, seeing what we’re still being charged for, and deleting it. Nuke ‘em!
- Fresh starts
