How do you delete an AWS EMR Cluster?

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vy32 picture vy32 · Nov 12, 2015 · Viewed 8.5k times · Source

I've been playing around with AWS EMR and I now have a few clusters that are terminated and that I want to delete:

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However, there is no obvious option to delete them. How do I make them go away?

Answer

jc mannem picture jc mannem · Feb 14, 2017

They will stay around for a while and will be automatically deleted later. There is apparently no fixed time documented anywhere.

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