Deleting DNS records in route53 with the CLI – Chris's Blog

I could not find a good tutorial for deleting route53 records in DNS.
This requires that you have jq installed first

Find my hosted zones id

$ aws --region us-west-1 --profile client-terraform \
 route53 list-hosted-zones-by-name --dns-name example.net \
 |jq .HostedZones[].Id \
"/hostedzone/MYZONEID"

Get the actual record

$ aws --region us-west-1 --profile client-terraform route53 \
 list-resource-record-sets --hosted-zone-id=MYZONEID \
 jq '.ResourceRecordSets[] | select (.Name == "staging.example.net.")'
{
  "Name": "staging.example.net.",
  "Type": "CNAME",
  "TTL": 300,
  "ResourceRecords": [
    {
      "Value": "a.us-west-1.elb.amazonaws.com"
    }
  ]
}

Create a JSON file using the information from above

$ cat /tmp/delete.json 
{
    "Comment": "delete this record",
    "Changes": [
        {
            "Action": "DELETE",
            "ResourceRecordSet": {
                "Name": "app.example.net.",
                "Type": "CNAME",
                "TTL": 300,
                "ResourceRecords": [
                    {
                        "Value": "a4.us-west-1.elb.amazonaws.com"
                    }
                ]
            }
        }
    ]
}

Actually delete the record

aws  --region us-west-1 --profile client-terraform route53 \
 change-resource-record-sets \
 --hosted-zone-id=MYZONEID --change-batch file:///tmp/delete.json

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