is there some way to set

removalPolicy

to

DESTROY

for all resources in a stack? one of the nice things about CloudFormation is the cleanup.. and setting

RETAIN

as default for many resources defeats that purpose

Hey @Sam Hulick, you mean things like S3 buckets, DynamoDB tables, CloudWatch LogGroups primarily right?

KMS keys, Cognito pools as well, are retain by default

you know what.. that’s a great idea for a high level flag on the

<http://sst.App|sst.App>

or

sst.Stack

, to set

removalPolicy

for all resources.

yeah, I was looking for that actually!

For now, you can loop through each CFN resource and set the flag. Something like:

stack.node.children.forEach(resource => {
  resource = resource as cdk.CfnResource;
  resource.applyRemovalPolicy(cdk.RemovalPolicy.DESTROY);
});

ahh, neat trick. thanks!

I haven’t tested the code above, but give it a try

still learning the ropes of CDK. it’s so powerful