Exercise 8: Tearing Down Serverless Application

Estimated time to complete: 5 minutes

Objectives

• Tear down evidence-app resources using cloudformation-teardown.sh
• (Optional) Reset CloudShell home directory contents

Challenges

Challenge 1: Tear Down With Terraform

Log back into your CloudShell session and use cloudformation-teardown.sh to destroy the evidence-app resources.

Solution

1. In your CloudShell session, run the following commands to destroy all evidence-app resources:

   cd /home/cloudshell-user/evidence-app
   ./cloudformation-teardown.sh
   

   Expected Results

   Removing webcode_final directory...
   Emptying S3 buckets (1 of 2)...
   Tearing down CloudFormation Stack (1 of 2)...
   Emptying S3 buckets (2 of 2)...
   Tearing down CloudFormation Stack (2 of 2)...
   Teardown complete!
   

Challenge 2: (Optional) Reset CloudShell Home Directory

Delete the contents of your CloudShell home directory.

Solution

1. In your CloudShell session, click on the Actions dropdown (1) and choose Delete AWS CloudShell home directory (2).

   

2. When prompted, type delete in the text field (1) and click on the Delete button (2).

   

3. Your CloudShell session should restart and your home directory will be set to default.