# Aws elasticsearch not starting **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [June 2, 2019, 6:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/aws-elasticsearch-not-starting/183849 "2019-06-02T06:01:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Apple23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9d8465/32.png) [@Apple23](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Apple23)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2019, 6:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/aws-elasticsearch-not-starting/183849/1 "2019-06-02T06:01:44Z")
Elasticsearch hosted in aws is not starting because of out of space issue How can i resolve this. How can i delete indices without starting elasticsearch ---
**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2019, 6:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/aws-elasticsearch-not-starting/183849/2 "2019-06-02T06:28:50Z")
Is it an elasticsearch instance that you installed on an ec2 server yourself or the hosted elasticsearch service that aws is providing? ---
**Author:** ![Apple23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9d8465/32.png) [@Apple23](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Apple23)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2019, 6:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/aws-elasticsearch-not-starting/183849/3 "2019-06-02T06:42:46Z")
elasticsearch instance that I installed on an ec2 server ---
**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2019, 7:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/aws-elasticsearch-not-starting/183849/4 "2019-06-02T07:47:45Z")
Which version? ---
**Author:** ![Apple23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9d8465/32.png) [@Apple23](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Apple23)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2019, 9:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/aws-elasticsearch-not-starting/183849/5 "2019-06-02T09:16:09Z")
version is 6.4 ---
**Author:** ![Apple23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9d8465/32.png) [@Apple23](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Apple23)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2019, 10:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/aws-elasticsearch-not-starting/183849/6 "2019-06-02T10:00:53Z")
Please tell me how to delete some indices from elasticsearch without starting starting it ---
**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2019, 10:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/aws-elasticsearch-not-starting/183849/7 "2019-06-02T10:26:03Z")
I know the question. No need to ask again. You can go in the data dir in nodes/0/indices if I recall correctly and remove from there. The hard part will be to identify which directory name is the one you want to delete. Normally you start elasticsearch and run the \_cat/indices API to know. Here I don't really know. But before doing that could you share elasticsearch logs? ---
**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2019, 10:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/aws-elasticsearch-not-starting/183849/8 "2019-06-02T10:35:51Z")
What type of instance and storage are you using? Might it be possible to extend storage? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2019, 10:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/aws-elasticsearch-not-starting/183849/9 "2019-06-30T10:36:16Z")
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