# rebuy-de/aws-nuke

Nuke a whole AWS account and delete all its resources.

Repository: https://github.com/rebuy-de/aws-nuke
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/aws-nuke
Homepage: https://github.com/ekristen/aws-nuke
Language: Go
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: aws, golang, cli, deprecated
Archived: true
Last push: 2024-10-15T07:47:29+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3566, "days_push": 687, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 5792, forks 717 (observed 2026-08-28T04:09:29.663739+00:00)

## What it is
A Go CLI tool that deletes all resources from an AWS account, with dry-run defaults and multiple safety confirmations. This original rebuy-de repository is deprecated and no longer maintained; users should use the ekristen/aws-nuke fork.

## Use cases
- delete all resources in an aws account
- clean up aws sandbox accounts
- wipe aws dev environment to avoid costs
- reset aws account to empty state
- bulk delete aws resources from cli

## When to choose
- you need to wipe a non-production AWS account completely
- you want a battle-tested tool with dry-run and blocklist safety features

## When to avoid
- maintaining production accounts - the tool hard-blocks 'prod' aliases
- you want active maintenance - use the ekristen/aws-nuke fork instead

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: abandoned
- function: cli, cloud, developer-tools, deployment
- domain: cloud-computing, infrastructure-as-code
- platform: cli, windows, go
- tags: aws, resource-cleanup, account-nuke, deprecated, cost-cleanup, devops, automation, linux, macos, docker

## Member repositories
- rebuy-de/aws-nuke (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:29.663739+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:52:48.372931+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/rebuy-de/aws-nuke (fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:29.663739+00:00, sha 09e191ab54f3)
  - homepage: https://github.com/ekristen/aws-nuke (fetched 2026-08-29T08:47:58.872992+00:00, sha 53e6b8dbfc73)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.