how to generate config file for aws-nuke - amazon-web-services

Question

I am trying to delete all resources in my aws account, but the directions for aws-nuke says I need to create a config file:
At first you need to create a configfile for aws-nuke. This is a minimal one:
regions:
- eu-west-1
- global
account-blacklist:
- "999999999999" # production
accounts:
"000000000000": {} # aws-nuke-example
With this config we can run aws-nuke:
My question is, how do I create this config file that deletes everything associated with an account and leaves me with a blank account? Thanks!

Answer 1

If you want to completely nuke everything associated with an account you just have to replace the zeros for the account number you want to erase like in your example. The {} means all resources types. Save the file as.YAML format and next issue the command like this:
aws-nuke -c config/example.yaml --profile demo
Check my example config/example.yaml file here:
regions:
#Regions where the resources are
- "global"
- "eu-central-1"
- "eu-west-1"
- "eu-west-2"
- "eu-east-1"
- "eu-east-2"
- "us-east-1"
- "us-east-2"
- "us-west-1"
- "us-west-2"
account-blocklist:
#Accounts you dont want to change
- 123456789101 # e.g production account
resource-types: #not mandatory
targets:
# Specific resources you want to remove
- S3Object
- S3Bucket
- EC2Volume
excludes: #not mandatory
# Specific resources you don't want to remove
- IAMUser
accounts:
943725333913: {}
# the {} means all resources associated with this account
# instead you can use filters like this:
943725333913:
filters:
S3Bucket:
- "s3://my-bucket"
S3Object:
- type: "glob"
value: "s3://my-bucket/*"