Deleting a cluster
As long as a cluster is in the available state, you are being charged for it, whether or not you are actively using it. To stop incurring charges, delete the cluster.
The following procedure deletes a single cluster from your deployment. To delete multiple clusters, repeat the procedure for each cluster that you want to delete. You do not need to wait for one cluster to finish deleting before starting the procedure to delete another cluster.
To delete a cluster
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Sign in to the AWS Management Console and open the Amazon ElastiCache console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/elasticache/
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In the ElastiCache console dashboard, choose the engine the cluster that you want to delete is running.
A list of all clusters running that engine appears.
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To choose the cluster to delete, choose the cluster's name from the list of clusters.
Important
You can only delete one cluster at a time from the ElastiCache console. Choosing multiple clusters disables the delete operation.
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For Actions, choose Delete.
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In the Delete Cluster confirmation screen, choose Delete to delete the cluster, or choose Cancel to keep the cluster.
If you chose Delete, the status of the cluster changes to deleting.
As soon as your cluster is no longer listed in the list of clusters, you stop incurring charges for it.
The following code deletes the cache cluster my-cluster
.
aws elasticache delete-cache-cluster --cache-cluster-id
my-cluster
The delete-cache-cluster
CLI action only deletes one cache cluster. To delete
multiple cache clusters, call delete-cache-cluster
for each cache
cluster that you want to delete. You do not need to wait for one cache cluster to
finish deleting before deleting another.
For Linux, macOS, or Unix:
aws elasticache delete-cache-cluster \ --cache-cluster-id
my-cluster
\ --regionus-east-2
For Windows:
aws elasticache delete-cache-cluster ^ --cache-cluster-id
my-cluster
^ --regionus-east-2
For more information, see the AWS CLI for ElastiCache topic delete-cache-cluster
.
The following code deletes the cluster my-cluster
.
https://elasticache.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ ?Action=DeleteCacheCluster &CacheClusterId=my-cluster &Region us-east-2 &SignatureVersion=4 &SignatureMethod=HmacSHA256 &Timestamp=20150202T220302Z &X-Amz-Algorithm=&AWS;4-HMAC-SHA256 &X-Amz-Date=20150202T220302Z &X-Amz-SignedHeaders=Host &X-Amz-Expires=20150202T220302Z &X-Amz-Credential=<credential> &X-Amz-Signature=<signature>
The DeleteCacheCluster
API operation only deletes one cache cluster. To delete
multiple cache clusters, call DeleteCacheCluster
for each cache cluster
that you want to delete. You do not need to wait for one cache cluster to finish
deleting before deleting another.
For more information, see the ElastiCache API reference topic DeleteCacheCluster
.