Example execution terraform destroy

 terraform destroy
aws_instance.app_server: Refreshing state... [id=i-0598bc37b772faaa3]

Terraform used the selected providers to generate the following execution plan. Resource actions are indicated with the
following symbols:
  - destroy

Terraform will perform the following actions:

  # aws_instance.app_server will be destroyed
  - resource "aws_instance" "app_server" {
      - ami                                  = "ami-830c94e3" -> null
      - arn                                  = "arn:aws:ec2:us-west-2:72859226533:instance/i-0598bc37b772faaa3" -> null
      - associate_public_ip_address          = true -> null
      - availability_zone                    = "us-west-2a" -> null
      - cpu_core_count                       = 1 -> null
      - cpu_threads_per_core                 = 1 -> null
.../...

Plan: 0 to add, 0 to change, 1 to destroy.

Do you really want to destroy all resources?
  Terraform will destroy all your managed infrastructure, as shown above.
  There is no undo. Only 'yes' will be accepted to confirm.

  Enter a value: yes

aws_instance.app_server: Destroying... [id=i-0598bc37b772faaa3]
aws_instance.app_server: Still destroying... [id=i-0598bc37b772faaa3, 10s elapsed]
aws_instance.app_server: Destruction complete after 30s

Destroy complete! Resources: 1 destroyed.

See also

• Terraform, OpenTofu, Terrakube.org, Installation, Terraform AWS, Terraform GCP, Terraform commands, Terraform Cloud, Terraform Enterprise (TFE), HCL, HIL, meta-arguments, providers, modules, resource, provisioners, data sources, backends: remote backends, examples, configuration files, state files, variables, types, Terraform Registry, conditionals: depends_on, functions, Blocks, dynamic blocks, errors, Terragrunt, Terraformer, Terratest, Terraform certifications, Terraform map type, Terraform Associate, Terraform: list type, TF_VAR_, TF_LOG, Terraform provider versioning, Terraform Style Conventions, Required version, Terraform plugin, Terraform Named Values, tags, Changelog, tfsec, tflint, Operators, Expressions: for, splat, Debugging, Namespaces, Terraform Landing Zones, CDKTF, Atmos