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Full Teardown and Wrap-up

The final article. The EC2 cluster has done its job, and leaving it running burns money every hour. This article tears down all the infrastructure in order — terminate the six instances (taking their disks with them), release the Elastic IP, remove the IAM role — with a real cost table for three choices: keep running, stop to save it, or delete entirely. Then a look back: from a single self-signed certificate to a fully operational HA Kubernetes cluster, built by hand.