TL;DR: How to delete an amplify environment, when some resources of the service have been deleted manually in the console?
So, I took a course on egghead to learn the aws amplify CLI. Unfortunately, it doesn't teach you how to delete the environment (otherwise it's great though!). My google search back then said you will have to delete the resources manually. I tried (/did) that for the resources I used. I deleted the user account for the CLI (🤦🏻♂️), "deleted" the cognito user pool (it still shows up in amplify status
), deleted the DynamoDB and the AppSync API (also still shows up).
Now as I mentioned when I run amplify status
I get:
| Category | Resource name | Operation | Provider plugin |
| -------- | --------------- | --------- | ----------------- |
| Auth | cognito559c5953 | No Change | awscloudformation |
| Api | AmplifyTodoApp | No Change | awscloudformation |
I wondered - since I thought I deleted them - do they still exist?
So I googled some more. Now it turns out there is also the command amplify delete
which automatically deletes all resources associated with your amplify project. Since I deleted the account that I used for the project, that command throws:
The security token included in the request is invalid.
Is there any way I can delete these resources without the user? Are these resources even still online (since I manually deleted them and they do not show up in the console online - even in the CloudFront console)? Or will I have to delete my whole AWS account? I don't want to end up with a big bill one day for these resources.
EDIT: I also deleted the S3 bucket.
EDIT 2: So I managed to use another profile (by changing local-aws-info.json
) so I don't get the security request failed error any more. Now I get the error:
Missing region in config
amplify status
still yields the same response.
To remove a Lambda layer, run the amplify function remove command and select Lambda layers . Next, you'll be prompted to select which layer to remove. You can delete specific layer versions or all of them. Warning: When you delete a layer, you can no longer configure functions to use it.
To disable hosting, please visit the Amplify Console and disconnect the branch from the App settings > General page. If you're hosting a Single Page Web App (SPA) with routing such as react-router , you'll need to add a redirect in the Amplify console.
From the Amplify CLI, by running the following command: This command deletes all of the resources tied to the project from the cloud. 1. Log in to the AWS Amplify Console 2. Click on your Amplify application 3. Go to the top right-hand corner and select “Delete app” from the actions drop down – wait for a few minutes as your application is deleted
To terminate the identified active resources under different services, do the following: Open the AWS Management Console. For Find services, enter the service name. After opening the service console, terminate all your active resources. Be sure to check each Region where you have allocated resources.
Unfortunately most of the suggested alternative method depend on the CloudFormation resource for Amplify to still be in place as well as the backend-config.json file. In this case where you are unable to directly use the Amplify CLI to remove the faulty environment, you can choose to directly use the AWS CLI instead of Amplify's CLI.
Open the AWS Management Console. For Find services, enter the service name. After opening the service console, terminate all your active resources. Be sure to check each Region where you have allocated resources.
amplify cli determines the status by diffing amplify/#current-cloud-backend
and amplify/backend
folder inside your project. So what you see when you run amplify status
you see isn't accurate in your case.
If you have created multiple environments (in different regions) make sure that you delete them too. The easiest way to delete them if you can't use amplify delete
is to go to cloud formation in the region where you have created the environment and deleting the root stack, which ensures that all the resources created by that stack are removed.
PS: The cli creates roles for auth
and unauth
users when initialized and creates policies for the resources (they don't cost anything if they exist). You could delete them if you don't want them hanging around.
When some resources have been deleted manually (S3 & Cloudformation) then
$amplify delete
Gives Following :
Unable to remove env: dev because deployment bucket amplify-amplifyAPPName-dev-XYZ-deployment does not exist or has been deleted.
Stack has already been deleted or does not exist
Please look at this:
C:user\samadhan\Amplify-Projects\amplifyapp-demo>amplify delete
? Are you sure you want to continue? This CANNOT be undone. (This will delete all the environments of the project from the cloud and wi
pe out all the local files created by Amplify CLI) Yes
- Deleting resources from the cloud. This may take a few minutes...
Deleting env: dev.
Unable to remove env: dev because deployment bucket amplify-
amplifyinitdemo-dev-131139-deployment does not exist or has been deleted.
Stack has already been deleted or does not exist
\ Deleting resources from the cloud. This may take a few minutes...App
dfwx13s2bgtb1 not found.
App dfwx13s2bgtb1 not found.
√ Project already deleted in the cloud.
Project deleted locally.
App Amplify App still showing in Console Unable to delete from Console. Please Take a look :
Solution: Using AWS CLI You Can be Fixed This Issue. Step 1 ) Make Sure AWS CLI is configured with the Same AWS Account if Not Please Create IAM User & Configure it with the same Region.
C:user\samadhan\Amplify-Projects\amplifyapp-demo>aws configure
AWS Access Key ID [****************HZHF]: ****************ICHK
AWS Secret Access Key [****************iBJl]:****************SnaX
Default region name [ap-south-1]: ap-south-1
Default output format [json]: json
Step 2 ) Use Following AWS CLI Commands.
C:user\samadhan\Amplify-Projects\amplifyapp-demo>>aws amplify help
Available Commands
******************
* create-app
* create-backend-environment
* create-deployment
* delete-app
* delete-backend-environment
* get-app
* list-apps
* list-backend-environments
C:user\samadhan\Amplify-Projects\amplifyapp-demo>aws amplify list-apps
{
"apps": [
{
"appId": "d39pvb2qln4v7l",
"appArn": "arn:aws:amplify:ap-south-1:850915XXXXX:apps/d39pvb2qln4v7l",
"name": "react-amplify-demo-project",
"tags": {},
"platform": "WEB",
"createTime": 1640206703.371,
"updateTime": 1640206703.371,
"environmentVariables": {
"_LIVE_PACKAGE_UPDATES": "[{\"pkg\":\"@aws-amplify/cli\",\"type\":\"npm\",\"version\":\"latest\"}]"
},
{
"appId": "d2jsl78ex1asqy",
"appArn": "arn:aws:amplify:ap-south-1:85091xxxxxxxx:apps/d2jsl78ex1asqy",
"name": "fullstackapp",
"tags": {},
"platform": "WEB",
"createTime": 1640250148.974,
"updateTime": 1640250148.974,
"environmentVariables": {
"_LIVE_PACKAGE_UPDATES": "[{\"pkg\":\"@aws-amplify/cli\",\"type\":\"npm\",\"version\":\"latest\"}]"
}
}
Step 3) Use Following CLI Command to Delete App Or App Env
C:user\samadhan\Amplify-Projects\amplifyapp-demo>aws amplify delete-app --app-id d39pvb2qln4v7l
{
"app": {
"appId": "d39pvb2qln4v7l",
"appArn": "arn:aws:amplify:ap-south-1:8509xxxxx:apps/d39pvb2qln4v7l",
"name": "react-amplify-demo-project",
"repository": "https://gitlab.com/samadhanfuke/react-amplify-demo-project",
"platform": "WEB",
"createTime": 1639077857.194,
"updateTime": 1639077857.194,
"iamServiceRoleArn": "arn:aws:iam::850915xxxx:role/amplifyconsole-backend-role",
"environmentVariables": {
"_LIVE_UPDATES": "[{\"name\":\"Amplify CLI\",\"pkg\":\"@aws-amplify/cli\",\"type\":\"npm\",\"version\":\"latest\"}]"
},
"defaultDomain": "d39pvb2qln4v7l.amplifyapp.com",
"enableBranchAutoBuild": false,
"enableBranchAutoDeletion": false,
"enableBasicAuth": false,
"customRules": [
{
"source": "/<*>",
"target": "/index.html",
"status": "404-200"
}
],
"productionBranch": {
"lastDeployTime": 1639078272.607,
"status": "SUCCEED",
"branchName": "preview"
},
"buildSpec": "version: 1\nbackend:\n phases:\n # IMPORTANT - Please verify your build commands\n build:\n commands:\n - '# Execute Amplify CLI with the helper script'\n - amplifyPush --simple\nfrontend:\n phases:\n build:\n commands: []\n artifacts:\n # IMPORTANT - Please verify your build output directory\n baseDirectory: /\n files:\n - '**/*'\n cache:\n paths: []\n",
"customHeaders": "",
"enableAutoBranchCreation": false
}
}
Amplify App With Environment Successfully Deleted. Check-in Amplify Console.
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