Learn how to deactivate an environment that has been activated for use in Cloudera Data Warehouse with the reduced permissions mode. When you deactivate an
environment in Cloudera Data Warehouse, the environment registered with Cloudera remains available for use by other applications.
Required role: EnvironmentAdmin or PowerUser
If a Cloudera environment has been activated for Cloudera Data Warehouse with the reduced permissions mode, then if you deactivate
the environment in the Cloudera Data Warehouse UI, you must manually delete the
CloudFormation stack in AWS and its associated S3 buckets and DynamoDB table. After you
click the deactivation icon in the Cloudera Data Warehouse environment tile, a
link displays in the tile that you can use to navigate to the AWS Console to delete these
cloud resources.
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In the Cloudera Data Warehouse UI, navigate to the tile for the
environment you want to deactivate, and click Deactivate, which
launches the Action dialog box.
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(Optional) In the Action dialog box, you can select one of
the following environment deactivation options if appropriate:
- Choose Drop Data if you want to drop any data Cloudera Data Warehouse created outside of the Data Lake, but retain the
Database Catalogs and Virtual Warehouses that are associated with the
environment.
- Choose Force Delete if you want to drop the data and also
remove the Database Catalogs and Virtual Warehouses that are associated with the
environment.
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Click Visit AWS Console to Delete Stack, which displays in
the Action dialog box. This opens the AWS Console in another
browser tab.
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In the Action dialog box of the Cloudera Data Warehouse UI, click OK, and then wait five
minutes so Cloudera Data Warehouse can perform its deletion steps.
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After waiting five minutes, in the AWS Console, click Delete
to delete the CloudFormation stack in your AWS account.
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In the AWS Console, perform the following tasks:
After performing these steps, the resources in your Amazon account for the
deactivated Cloudera Data Warehouse environment have been deleted.