sets removal policy on S3 and DynamoDB to DESTROY

typescript/api-cors-lambda-crud-dynamodb/index.ts

@@ -12,7 +12,12 @@ export class ApiLambdaCrudDynamoDBStack extends cdk.Stack {
         name: 'itemId',
         type: dynamodb.AttributeType.STRING
       },
-      tableName: 'items'
+      tableName: 'items',
+
+      // The default removal policy is RETAIN, which means that cdk destroy will not attempt to delete
+      // the new table, and it will remain in your account until manually deleted. By setting the policy to 
+      // DESTROY, cdk destroy will delete the table (even if it has data in it)
+      removalPolicy: cdk.RemovalPolicy.DESTROY, // NOT recommended for production code
     });
 
     const getOneLambda = new lambda.Function(this, 'getOneItemFunction', {

typescript/appsync-graphql-dynamodb/index.ts

@@ -51,7 +51,12 @@ export class AppSyncCdkStack extends cdk.Stack {
         type: AttributeType.STRING
       },
       billingMode: BillingMode.PAY_PER_REQUEST,
-      stream: StreamViewType.NEW_IMAGE
+      stream: StreamViewType.NEW_IMAGE,
+
+      // The default removal policy is RETAIN, which means that cdk destroy will not attempt to delete
+      // the new table, and it will remain in your account until manually deleted. By setting the policy to 
+      // DESTROY, cdk destroy will delete the table (even if it has data in it)
+      removalPolicy: cdk.RemovalPolicy.DESTROY, // NOT recommended for production code
     });
 
     const itemsTableRole = new Role(this, 'ItemsDynamoDBRole', {

typescript/elasticbeanstalk/elasticbeanstalk-bg-pipeline/index.ts

@@ -16,7 +16,12 @@ export class CdkStack extends cdk.Stack {
     const green_env = node.tryGetContext("green_env");
     const app_name = node.tryGetContext("app_name");
 
-    const bucket = new s3.Bucket(this, 'BlueGreenBucket');
+    const bucket = new s3.Bucket(this, 'BlueGreenBucket', {
+      // The default removal policy is RETAIN, which means that cdk destroy will not attempt to delete
+      // the new bucket, and it will remain in your account until manually deleted. By setting the policy to 
+      // DESTROY, cdk destroy will attempt to delete the bucket, but will error if the bucket is not empty.
+      removalPolicy: cdk.RemovalPolicy.DESTROY, // NOT recommended for production code
+    });
 
     const handler = new lambda.Function(this, 'BlueGreenLambda', {
       runtime: lambda.Runtime.PYTHON_3_6,

typescript/my-widget-service/widget_service.ts

@@ -36,7 +36,12 @@ export class WidgetService extends cdk.Construct {
   constructor(scope: cdk.Construct, id: string) {
     super(scope, id);
 
-    const bucket = new s3.Bucket(this, "WidgetStore");
+    const bucket = new s3.Bucket(this, "WidgetStore", {
+      // The default removal policy is RETAIN, which means that cdk destroy will not attempt to delete
+      // the new bucket, and it will remain in your account until manually deleted. By setting the policy to 
+      // DESTROY, cdk destroy will attempt to delete the bucket, but will error if the bucket is not empty.
+      removalPolicy: cdk.RemovalPolicy.DESTROY, // NOT recommended for production code
+    });
 
     const handler = new lambda.Function(this, "WidgetHandler", {
       runtime: lambda.Runtime.NODEJS_8_10, // So we can use async in widget.js

typescript/static-site/static-site.ts

@@ -32,7 +32,12 @@ export class StaticSite extends Construct {
             bucketName: siteDomain,
             websiteIndexDocument: 'index.html',
             websiteErrorDocument: 'error.html',
-            publicReadAccess: true
+            publicReadAccess: true,
+
+            // The default removal policy is RETAIN, which means that cdk destroy will not attempt to delete
+            // the new bucket, and it will remain in your account until manually deleted. By setting the policy to 
+            // DESTROY, cdk destroy will attempt to delete the bucket, but will error if the bucket is not empty.
+            removalPolicy: cdk.RemovalPolicy.DESTROY, // NOT recommended for production code
         });
         new cdk.CfnOutput(this, 'Bucket', { value: siteBucket.bucketName });