Clean up old CloudFormation stacks

Is your AWS account littered with old CloudFormation stacks? Deleting them is a pain when they contain S3 buckets: you need to empty those manually.

This tool automates the process:

npx cloudformation-force-delete your-stack-name

It will delete the stack after emptying any S3 buckets it contains.

Warning

Use at your own risk! This tool will delete resources in your AWS account. Make sure you select the right stack, region, and profile.

Options

--region - The AWS region to use. Defaults to your profile's default (or us-east-1 if not set).
--profile - The AWS profile to use. Defaults to your default profile.