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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?

vy32
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  • If they are terminated, they will go away by themselves later. – eliasah Nov 11 '15 at 23:13
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    When is later? I have one since 2015-10-31... – vy32 Nov 12 '15 at 00:04
  • I've found that sometimes you have to delete from the command line. I'm assuming that you have already read this http://docs.aws.amazon.com/ElasticMapReduce/latest/DeveloperGuide/UsingEMR_TerminateJobFlow.html but have you tried from the AWS CLI? Maybe termination protection is enabled? –  Nov 12 '15 at 06:45
  • When termination protection is enabled, you can't terminate the machines. It has nothing to do with deleting. @vy32 did you check your EC2 console if the terminated machines are still there? – eliasah Nov 12 '15 at 07:08
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    Thanks for your note. If you look above, the status of the clusters is that they are terminated. They are just still on the control panel. I guess they stay around so that you can clone them, even after they are terminated. – vy32 Nov 12 '15 at 15:54
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    they will be cleaned from the list auto within two weeks, I think they already missing now. – BlueMandora Dec 04 '15 at 03:06
  • Well, they are still there, even after a month. – vy32 Dec 06 '15 at 18:32
  • If I remember correctly, they stay in the console for about 60 days. You can only avoid the noise using 'Active clusters' filter. – annunarcist Dec 04 '16 at 07:29

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They stay around for 60 days which is now documented here: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/emr/latest/ManagementGuide/emr-manage-view-clusters.html

Amazon EMR saves metadata about terminated clusters for your reference for two months, after which the metadata is deleted.

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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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