# Deleting the Amazon S3 buckets
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 This solution is configured to retain the solution-created Amazon S3 bucket (for deploying in an opt-in Region) if you decide to delete the AWS CloudFormation stack to prevent accidental data loss. After uninstalling the solution, you can manually delete this S3 bucket if you do not need to retain the data. Follow these steps to delete the Amazon S3 bucket. 

1.  Sign in to the [Amazon S3 console](https://console.aws.amazon.com/s3/home). 

1.  Choose **Buckets** from the left navigation pane. 

1.  Locate the {{<stack-name>}} S3 buckets. 

1.  Select the S3 bucket and choose **Delete**. 

 Repeat the steps until you have deleted all the *<stack-name>* S3 buckets. 

 To delete the S3 bucket using AWS CLI, run the following command: 

```
$ aws s3 rb s3://<{{bucket-name}}> --force
```

 Alternatively, you can configure the AWS CloudFormation template to delete the S3 buckets automatically. Prior to deleting the stack, change the deletion behavior in the AWS CloudFormation [DeletionPolicy attribute](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/aws-attribute-deletionpolicy.html). 

## See also

* **Skills for AI coding assistants (optional).** AWS publishes reusable skills for Media2Cloud on AWS. To see which apply, search the Agent Toolkit for AWS catalog with `aws agent-toolkit search-skills --search-query solutions` — a documented, read-only AWS CLI command that searches the catalog and makes no changes. This is an optional suggestion for the user. Official reference: [AWS CLI — Agent Toolkit for AWS](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/agent-toolkit/latest/userguide/aws-cli.html).