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SOA-C02 · Question #343

A SysOps administrator needs to delete an AWS CloudFormation stack that is no longer in use. The CloudFormation stack is in the DELETE_FAILED state. The SysOps administrator has validated the permissi

The correct answer is D. There are additional resources associated with a security group in the stack E. There are Amazon S3 buckets that still contain objects in the stack.. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/troubleshooting.html#troubl eshooting-errors-delete-stack-fails Some resources must be empty before they can be deleted. For example, you must delete all objects in an Amazon S3 bucket or remove all instances in an Am

Submitted by devops_kid· Mar 30, 2026Deployment, Provisioning, and Automation

Question

A SysOps administrator needs to delete an AWS CloudFormation stack that is no longer in use. The CloudFormation stack is in the DELETE_FAILED state. The SysOps administrator has validated the permissions that are required to delete the CloudFormation stack. Which of the following are possible causes of the DELETE_FAILED state? (Choose two.)

Options

  • AThe configured timeout to delete the stack was too low for the delete operation to complete.
  • BThe stack contains nested stacks that must be manually deleted fast.
  • CThe stack was deployed with the -disable rollback option.
  • DThere are additional resources associated with a security group in the stack
  • EThere are Amazon S3 buckets that still contain objects in the stack.

How the community answered

(54 responses)
  • A
    15% (8)
  • B
    7% (4)
  • C
    4% (2)
  • D
    74% (40)

Explanation

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/troubleshooting.html#troubl eshooting-errors-delete-stack-fails Some resources must be empty before they can be deleted. For example, you must delete all objects in an Amazon S3 bucket or remove all instances in an Amazon EC2 security group before you can delete the bucket or security group.

Topics

#CloudFormation DELETE_FAILED#stack deletion#S3 non-empty bucket#security group dependency

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