Deleting a cluster using the console

If you are finished using a cluster, you can delete it. After you delete the cluster, it transitions to the INACTIVE state. Clusters with an INACTIVE status may remain discoverable in your account for a period of time. However, this behavior is subject to change in the future, so you should not rely on INACTIVE clusters persisting.

Before you delete a cluster, you must perform the following operations:

• Delete all services in the cluster. For more information, see Deleting a service using the classic console.

• Stop all currently running tasks. For more information, see Stopping tasks using the new console.

• Deregister all registered container instances in the cluster. For more information, see Deregister an Amazon EC2 backed container instance.

• If you created your cluster with the new console, delete the AWS CloudFormation stack that was created for your cluster. The stack is named cluster-name-ECS-Infra. For example, if the cluster name is "example-cluster-new-console", then the stack name is example-cluster-new-console-ECS-Infra. For more information, see Deleting a stack on the AWS CloudFormation console in the AWS CloudFormation User Guide.

• Delete the namespace. For more information, see Deleting namespaces in the AWS Cloud Map Developer Guide.

If you created a cluster using the classic console and you receive an error when you use the new console, you might need to delete the cluster using the classic console, For more information, see Deleting a cluster using the classic console.

To delete a cluster (Amazon ECS console)

1. Open the console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/ecs/v2.

2. From the navigation bar, select the Region to use.

3. In the navigation pane, choose Clusters.

4. On the Clusters page, select the cluster to delete.

5. In the upper-right of the page, choose Delete Cluster.

   A message is displayed when you did not delete all the resources associated with the cluster.

6. In the confirmation box, enter delete cluster name.