# Delete an Amazon MSK Provisioned cluster using the AWS CLI
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This process describes how to delete an MSK Provisioned cluster using the AWS CLI. Before you delete a 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.

Run the following command, replacing {{ClusterArn}} with the Amazon Resource Name (ARN) that you obtained when you created your cluster. If you don't have the ARN for your cluster, you can find it by listing all clusters. For more information, see [List Amazon MSK clusters](msk-list-clusters.md).

```
aws kafka delete-cluster --cluster-arn {{ClusterArn}}
```

## 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).