AWS Nuke

Abstract

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• A tool to remove all resources in an AWS Account automatically without manually clicking countless buttons
• Refer to Github Repo for more details The original repo was archived by the owner on Oct 15, 2024, the actively maintained fork is ekristen/aws-nuke

CAUTION

Always double check what resources that AWS Nuke aren’t able to remove. There are a few resources that require manual removal like AWS Network Firewall.

Setup Checklist:

• AWS Account Setting
• AWS Nuke Configuration File
• Run in Docker

AWS Account Setting

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• We need to create Account Alias in order to start using aws-nuke

AWS Nuke Configuration File

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We are using a .yml to configure the behaviour of aws-nuke

Example 1: Remove all

regions:
  - "ap-southeast-1"
account-blocklist:
  - 1234567890
accounts:
  "<YOUR_ACCOUNT_NUMBER>": {}

Yaml Syntax

Make sure there is a space between : and {}

Example 2: Filter resources

Prevent some resources from be removed

# Achieve this:  ap-southeast-1 - ACMCertificate - arn:aws:acm:ap-southeast-1:106330972960:certificate/5212c31a-94f1-4dc9-80a8-b72d8d6b2054 - [DomainName: "vault.yxy.ninja"] - filtered by config
 
regions:
  - "ap-southeast-1"
account-blocklist:
  - 1234567890
accounts:
  "<YOUR_ACCOUNT_NUMBER>":
    filters:
      ACMCertificate:
        - "arn:aws:acm:ap-southeast-1:106330972960:certificate/5212c31a-94f1-4dc9-80a8-b72d8d6b2054"

Start the Nuke!

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• Pass in the AWS Nuke Configuration File & AWS Credentials to the container using Docker Volume

docker run \
   --rm -it \
   -v <ABSOLUTE_PATH_TO_CONFIG.YAML>:/home/aws-nuke/config.yml \
   -v <ABSOLUTE_PATH_TO_.aws>:/home/aws-nuke/.aws \
   rebuy/aws-nuke:latest \
   --profile <YOUR_AWS_PROFILE> \
   --config /home/aws-nuke/config.yml