<p>I have created ekscluster with a name called "prod". I worked on this "prod" cluster after that i have deleted it. I have deleted all its associated vpc, interfaces, security groups everything. But if i try to create the ekscluster with the same name "prod" am getting this below error. Can you please help me on this issue?</p>

<pre><code>[centos@ip-172-31-23-128 ~]$ eksctl create cluster --name prod
--region us-east-2 [ℹ] eksctl version 0.13.0 [ℹ] using region us-east-2 [ℹ] setting availability zones to [us-east-2b us-east-2c us-east-2a] [ℹ] subnets for us-east-2b - public:192.168.0.0/19 private:192.168.96.0/19 [ℹ] subnets for us-east-2c - public:192.168.32.0/19 private:192.168.128.0/19 [ℹ] subnets for us-east-2a - public:192.168.64.0/19 private:192.168.160.0/19 [ℹ] nodegroup "ng-1902b9c1" will use "ami-080fbb09ee2d4d3fa" [AmazonLinux2/1.14] [ℹ] using Kubernetes version 1.14 [ℹ] creating EKS cluster "prod" in "us-east-2" region with un-managed nodes [ℹ] will create 2 separate CloudFormation stacks for cluster itself and the initial nodegroup [ℹ] if you encounter any issues, check CloudFormation console or try 'eksctl utils describe-stacks
--region=us-east-2 --cluster=prod' [ℹ] CloudWatch logging will not be enabled for cluster "prod" in "us-east-2" [ℹ] you can enable it with 'eksctl utils update-cluster-logging --region=us-east-2
--cluster=prod' [ℹ] Kubernetes API endpoint access will use default of {publicAccess=true, privateAccess=false} for cluster "prod" in "us-east-2" [ℹ] 2 sequential tasks: { create cluster control plane "prod", create nodegroup "ng-1902b9c1" } [ℹ] building cluster stack "eksctl-prod-cluster" [ℹ] 1 error(s) occurred and cluster hasn't been created properly, you may wish to check CloudFormation console [ℹ] to cleanup resources, run 'eksctl delete cluster --region=us-east-2
--name=prod' [✖] creating CloudFormation stack "eksctl-prod-cluster": AlreadyExistsException: Stack [eksctl-prod-cluster] already exists status code: 400, request id: 49258141-e03a-42af-ba8a-3fef9176063e Error: failed to create cluster "prod"
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nikhileshwar y
<p>There are two things to consider here.</p>

<ol>
<li><p>The <code>delete</code> command does not wait for all the resources to actually be gone. You should add the <code>--wait</code> flag in order to let it finish. It usually it takes around 10-15 mins. </p></li>
<li><p>If that is still not enough you should make sure that you delete the <code>CloudFormation</code> object. It would look something like this (adjust the naming):</p>

<p><code>#delete cluster:
-delete cloudformation stack
aws cloudformation list-stacks --query StackSummaries[].StackName
aws cloudformation delete-stack --stack-name worker-node-stack
aws eks delete-cluster --name EKStestcluster</code></p></li>
</ol>

<p>Please let me know if that helped.</p>
