Clear an initial AWS CDK stack to start building an app from scratch

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In this quick lesson we're going to clear out the SQS Queue and SNS Topic that was created for us when we created a CDK app with cdk init in order for us to be able to start building our app from scratch.

ed leach

~ 4 years ago

I think you need to do "npm run-script build" before doing the diff.

Quang Le

~ 4 years ago

If someone happens to get the error Error: This stack uses assets, so the toolkit stack must be deployed to the environment (Run "cdk bootstrap aws://unknown-account/unknown-region"), then check what aws profile is currently used (find in in ~/.aws/credentials), then do the bootstrap with the command cdk bootstrap --profile profile-name before running aws deploy