cloud-nuke

cloud-nuke deletes cloud resources in bulk, fast. Spun up a test environment, a demo account, or a pile of resources from a workshop and want them gone? It finds and destroys them across an AWS account, with growing Azure and GCP support, filtered by age, type, or region. Open source and free from Gruntwork.

It's a Go CLI. You run it, it shows you what it found, you confirm, it deletes. There's an inspect mode to preview and filters so you don't wipe production by accident. No infrastructure, just credentials with enough permission to delete, which is exactly why you handle it carefully.

This is a fully free, single-purpose tool. Gruntwork sells a much broader infrastructure subscription, but cloud-nuke stands alone at no cost. For anyone burning down ephemeral accounts or cleaning up after tests, it's a huge time saver.

The catch: it deletes things. Run it against the wrong account or with too-loose filters and it will happily destroy resources you wanted. Never point it at an account with anything you care about, and always inspect before you confirm. Treat it like a loaded tool, because it is.