Tear down this lab

If you are attending an in-person workshop and were provided with an AWS account by the instructor:

  • There is no need to tear down the lab. Feel free to continue exploring. Log out of your AWS account when done.

If you are using your own AWS account:

  • You may leave these resources deployed for as long as you want. When you are ready to delete these resources, see the following instructions

How to delete an AWS CloudFormation stack

If you are already familiar with how to delete an AWS CloudFormation stack, then skip to the next section: Delete workshop CloudFormation stacks

  1. Go to the AWS CloudFormation console: https://console.aws.amazon.com/cloudformation
  2. Select the CloudFormation stack to delete and click Delete
  3. In the confirmation dialog, click Delete stack
  4. The Status changes to DELETE_IN_PROGRESS
  5. Click the refresh button to update and status will ultimately progress to DELETE_COMPLETE
  6. When complete, the stack will no longer be displayed. To see deleted stacks use the drop down next to the Filter text box.
  7. To see progress during stack deletion
    • Click the stack name
    • Select the Events column
    • Refresh to see new events

Delete workshop CloudFormation stacks

  1. First delete the CloudFormationLab CloudFormation stack
  2. Wait for the CloudFormationLab CloudFormation stack to complete (it will no longer be shown on the list of active stacks)
  3. Then delete the WebApp1-VPC CloudFormation stack

References & useful resources

AWS CloudFormation

AWS Resources that enable reliable architectures:

Now that you have completed the lab, if you have implemented this knowledge in your environment, you should re-evaluate the questions in the Well-Architected tool. This lab specifically helps you with REL 8 How do you implement change?