Options for destroying / tearing down a deployed Reference Architecture
A customer asked: > Is it easy to tear down / destroy the resources that Gruntwork deploys into our AWS accounts? --- <ins datetime="2022-07-13T13:26:36Z"> <p><a href="https://support.gruntwork.io/hc/requests/108971">Tracked in ticket #108971</a></p> </ins>
You have a couple of options for destroying / tearing down the Reference Architecture that Gruntwork deploys for you: 1. If you are still a current customer and have access to Gruntwork repos, and your Gruntwork Pipelines solution is configured and running, you could use the same ECS Deploy Runner solution we deploy into each of your accounts to tear down infrastructure. You do this by deleting the environment folders one by one and pushing the change up to your branch, which will run `terragrunt destroy` on the environment you removed. 2. You could manually run `terragrunt destroy` in each of your environment folders while authenticated to the appropriate AWS account 3. You could use our open-source tool [cloud-nuke](https://github.com/gruntwork-io/cloud-nuke) to destroy many of the resources in your accounts for you in an automated manner.