# DeleteReplicationGroup
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Deletes an existing replication group. By default, this operation deletes the entire replication group, including the primary/primaries and all of the read replicas. If the replication group has only one primary, you can optionally delete only the read replicas, while retaining the primary by setting `RetainPrimaryCluster=true`.

When you receive a successful response from this operation, Amazon ElastiCache immediately begins deleting the selected resources; you cannot cancel or revert this operation.

**Note**  
 `CreateSnapshot` permission is required to create a final snapshot. Without this permission, the API call will fail with an `Access Denied` exception.
This operation is valid for Redis OSS only.

## Request Parameters
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 For information about the parameters that are common to all actions, see [Common Parameters](CommonParameters.md).

 ** ReplicationGroupId **   
The identifier for the cluster to be deleted. This parameter is not case sensitive.  
Type: String  
Required: Yes

 ** FinalSnapshotIdentifier **   
The name of a final node group (shard) snapshot. ElastiCache creates the snapshot from the primary node in the cluster, rather than one of the replicas; this is to ensure that it captures the freshest data. After the final snapshot is taken, the replication group is immediately deleted.  
Type: String  
Required: No

 ** RetainPrimaryCluster **   
If set to `true`, all of the read replicas are deleted, but the primary node is retained.  
Type: Boolean  
Required: No

## Response Elements
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The following element is returned by the service.

 ** ReplicationGroup **   
Contains all of the attributes of a specific Valkey or Redis OSS replication group.  
Type: [ReplicationGroup](API_ReplicationGroup.md) object

## Errors
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For information about the errors that are common to all actions, see [Common Error Types](CommonErrors.md).

 ** InvalidParameterCombination **   
Two or more incompatible parameters were specified.    
 ** message **   
Two or more parameters that must not be used together were used together.
HTTP Status Code: 400

 ** InvalidParameterValue **   
The value for a parameter is invalid.    
 ** message **   
A parameter value is invalid.
HTTP Status Code: 400

 ** InvalidReplicationGroupState **   
The requested replication group is not in the `available` state.  
HTTP Status Code: 400

 ** ReplicationGroupNotFoundFault **   
The specified replication group does not exist.  
HTTP Status Code: 404

 ** SnapshotAlreadyExistsFault **   
You already have a snapshot with the given name.  
HTTP Status Code: 400

 ** SnapshotFeatureNotSupportedFault **   
You attempted one of the following operations:  
+ Creating a snapshot of a Valkey or Redis OSS cluster running on a `cache.t1.micro` cache node.
+ Creating a snapshot of a cluster that is running Memcached rather than Valkey or Redis OSS.
Neither of these are supported by ElastiCache.  
HTTP Status Code: 400

 ** SnapshotQuotaExceededFault **   
The request cannot be processed because it would exceed the maximum number of snapshots.  
HTTP Status Code: 400

## Examples
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### DeleteReplicationGroup
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This example illustrates one usage of DeleteReplicationGroup.

#### Sample Request
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```
https://elasticache.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/
   ?Action=DeleteReplicationGroup &RetainPrimaryCluster=false
   &FinalSnapshotIdentifier=my-final-snapshot
   &ReplicationGroupId=my-repgroup
   &Version=2015-02-02
   &SignatureVersion=4
   &SignatureMethod=HmacSHA256
   &Timestamp=20150202T192317Z
   &X-Amz-Credential=<credential>
```

#### Sample Response
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```
<DeleteReplicationGroupResponse xmlns="http://elasticache.amazonaws.com/doc/2015-02-02/"> 
   <DeleteReplicationGroupResult> 
      <ReplicationGroup> 
         <SnapshottingClusterId>my-redis-primary</SnapshottingClusterId> 
decrease-replica-count         <ReplicationGroupId>my-repgroup</ReplicationGroupId> 
         <Status>deleting</Status> 
         <PendingModifiedValues /> 
         <Description>My replication group</Description> 
      </ReplicationGroup> 
   </DeleteReplicationGroupResult> 
   <ResponseMetadata> 
      <RequestId>93eb37db-b9d7-11e3-8a16-7978bb24ffdf</RequestId> 
   </ResponseMetadata> 
</DeleteReplicationGroupResponse>
```

## See Also
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For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:
+  [AWS Command Line Interface V2](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/cli2/elasticache-2015-02-02/DeleteReplicationGroup) 
+  [AWS SDK for .NET V4](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/DotNetSDKV4/elasticache-2015-02-02/DeleteReplicationGroup) 
+  [AWS SDK for C\$1\$1](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForCpp/elasticache-2015-02-02/DeleteReplicationGroup) 
+  [AWS SDK for Go v2](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForGoV2/elasticache-2015-02-02/DeleteReplicationGroup) 
+  [AWS SDK for Java V2](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForJavaV2/elasticache-2015-02-02/DeleteReplicationGroup) 
+  [AWS SDK for JavaScript V3](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForJavaScriptV3/elasticache-2015-02-02/DeleteReplicationGroup) 
+  [AWS SDK for Kotlin](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForKotlin/elasticache-2015-02-02/DeleteReplicationGroup) 
+  [AWS SDK for PHP V3](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForPHPV3/elasticache-2015-02-02/DeleteReplicationGroup) 
+  [AWS SDK for Python](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/boto3/elasticache-2015-02-02/DeleteReplicationGroup) 
+  [AWS SDK for Ruby V3](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForRubyV3/elasticache-2015-02-02/DeleteReplicationGroup)