A remove command for AWS resources
Work in progress
The Unix Philosophy suggests
writing programs which do one thing and do it well, rather than adding more features to existing programs.
awsrm does one thing: deleting AWS resources via the command line.
Like other Unix-like tools, awsrm shows its real power when being combined via pipes with other tools,
such as awsls for listing resources or grep for filtering resources.
- List resources via
awslswith the attributes you want to filter on (here:-a tags) - Use standard tools, such as grep, to filter the resources to delete
- Pipe result into
awsrm(nothing is deleted until you confirm)
The following example deletes all AWS instances with tag Name=foo in the AWS accounts associated with
profile myaccount1 and myaccount2 in both regions us-west-2 and us-east-1:
awsls -p myaccount1 -r us-west-2 instance -a tags | grep Name=foo | awsrm
Until the first release:
go build
cp awsrm ~/bin