Problem scenario
You deployed servers with CloudFormation. You know the name of the stack. How do you delete the stack with the AWS CLI?
Solution
Prerequisite
This assumes you have installed and configured the AWS CLI. If you need help with this, see this posting.
Procedure
Run this command (but replace "continualstack" with the name of the stack that you want to delete:
aws cloudformation delete-stack --stack-name continualstack