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cloud-nuke, developed by Gruntwork, is an open-source CLI utility designed to identify and delete every cloud resource across an AWS account in a single operation, eliminating the surprise bills that often accumulate in development, staging, or sandbox environments. Conceived for teams that spin up temporary infrastructure during automated tests, proofs-of-concept, or training sessions, the tool inspects all supported services—compute, storage, networking, databases, IAM, CloudWatch, and dozens more—and terminates them in the correct dependency order, optionally respecting configurable safety rules such as resource age, region, resource type, or tag-based allow-lists. Version 0.48.0, the eleventh public release since the project began, introduces faster parallel deletion queues, improved filtering syntax, and clearer dry-run output so operators can preview what will be removed before any destructive call is sent to the AWS APIs. Typical use cases include nightly cleanup jobs in CI pipelines, purging of short-lived demo accounts, and disaster-recovery drills where a blank-slate environment must be guaranteed within minutes. Because the software requires only read-then-delete IAM permissions and is distributed as a single self-contained binary, it can be dropped into existing automation with minimal friction while still supporting advanced scenarios such as multi-region sweeps, exclusion patterns, and integration with Slack or e-mail for audit logs. cloud-nuke is available for free on get.nero.com, with downloads provided via trusted Windows package sources (e.g. winget), always delivering the latest version, and supporting batch installation of multiple applications.
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