DeletionPolicy

  • by default, physical resource is deleted after the logical resource from a template is deleted
  • only applies to deletion operation of logical resource….not to replacement/changes
  • With deletion policy, you can define on each resource to…..
    • delete (default)
    • retain
    • snapshot (if supported; EBS volume, elasticache, EDS, redshift), have to clean up because it will continue to incur storage cost

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