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How can I force delete my AWS cloud formation stack? The tied resources were already deleted previously like the DNS, route53, etc. Whenever I delete the stack, it failed because it couldn't find the resources.
The specified hosted zone does not exist. DELETE_FAILED.
This made the deletion halt and made the stack still active. How can I force clean-up and remove this stack?
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During deletion, CloudFormation deletes the stack but doesn't delete the retained resources. Retaining resources is useful when you can't delete a resource, such as a non-empty S3 bucket, but you want to delete the stack.
Based on this thread, it appears that stack deletion can be problematic if the stack is altered.
https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=71050&start=0&tstart=0
Looks like you need to go via Support to get it deleted.
That said, I have been able to delete stacks where I have manually altered the components. Sometimes you need to wait a couple of hours after you terminate instances, VPCs, subnets etc before the stack deletion actually succeeds.
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