# Step 4: Delete Your Amazon CloudSearch Movies Domain
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 When you are finished experimenting with your movies domain, **you must delete it to avoid incurring additional usage fees. **

**Important**  
Deleting a domain deletes the index associated with the domain and takes the domain's document and search endpoints offline permanently.

**To delete your imdb-movies domain**

1. Go to the Amazon CloudSearch console at [https://console.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch/home](https://console.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch/home) and navigate to the list of domains.

1. Select the checkbox for the *movies* domain, then choose **Delete** and confirm deletion.

**Note**  
It can take around 15 minutes to delete the domain and its resources.

Wondering where to go next? [Are You New to Amazon CloudSearch?](what-is-cloudsearch.md#new-to-cloudsearch) has a guide to the rest of the Amazon CloudSearch developer documentation. For more information about the Amazon CloudSearch query language, see [Searching Your Data with Amazon CloudSearch](searching.md). If you're ready to set up a domain with your own data, see [Preparing Your Data](preparing-data.md) and [Uploading Data to an Amazon CloudSearch Domain](uploading-data.md).