DELETE

/clusters/{name}

http://eks.{region}.amazonaws.com/clusters/{name}

Deletes the Amazon EKS cluster control plane. If you have active services in your cluster that are associated with a load balancer, you must delete those services before deleting the cluster so that the load balancers are deleted properly. Otherwise, you can have orphaned resources in your VPC that prevent you from being able to delete the VPC. For more information, see <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eks/latest/userguide/delete-cluster.html">Deleting a Cluster</a> in the Amazon EKS User Guide. If you have managed node groups or Fargate profiles attached to the cluster, you must delete them first. For more information, see <a>DeleteNodegroup</a> and <a>DeleteFargateProfile</a>.

Access Token Required: API Key

Path Parameters

namestringrequired

The name of the cluster to delete.

Responses

{
  "success": true,
  "data": {
    "id": "abc123",
    "created_at": "2025-01-01T00:00:00Z"
  }
}

{
  "success": false,
  "error": {
    "code": "VALIDATION_ERROR",
    "message": "Invalid request parameters"
  }
}

Language

CredentialsAPI KEY

API Key

Enter token below to save for later

cURL Request

1curl --request DELETE \
2     --url 'http://eks.{region}.amazonaws.com/clusters/{name}' \
3     --header 'accept: application/json' \
4     --header 'content-type: application/json'

Response

1{
2  "success": true,
3  "data": {
4    "id": "abc123",
5    "created_at": "2025-01-01T00:00:00Z"
6  }
7}