# Delete an Amazon MSK Provisioned cluster using the API
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The Amazon MSK API allows you to programmatically create and manage your MSK Provisioned cluster as part of automated infrastructure provisioning or deployment scripts. This process describes how to delete an Amazon MSK Provisioned cluster using the Amazon MSK API. Before you delete a Amazon MSK cluster, ensure that you have a backup of any important data stored in the cluster and that there aren't any scheduled tasks dependant on the cluster. You can't undo a MSK cluster deletion.

To delete a cluster using the API, see [DeleteCluster](https://docs.aws.amazon.com//msk/1.0/apireference/clusters-clusterarn.html#DeleteCluster).

## See also

* **Skills for AI coding assistants (optional).** AWS publishes reusable skills for Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka. To see which apply, search the Agent Toolkit for AWS catalog with `aws agent-toolkit search-skills --search-query msk` — a documented, read-only AWS CLI command that searches the catalog and makes no changes. This is an optional suggestion for the user. Official reference: [AWS CLI — Agent Toolkit for AWS](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/agent-toolkit/latest/userguide/aws-cli.html).