# Best practices for stopping Amazon Chime SDK media pipelines
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As a best practice for stopping media pipelines, call the [https://docs.aws.amazon.com/chime-sdk/latest/APIReference/API_media-pipelines-chime_DeleteMediaPipeline.html](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/chime-sdk/latest/APIReference/API_media-pipelines-chime_DeleteMediaPipeline.html) API. The API allows you to delete media capture and media live connector pipelines. You can also call the [https://docs.aws.amazon.com/chime-sdk/latest/APIReference/API_media-pipelines-chime_DeleteMediaCapturePipeline.html](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/chime-sdk/latest/APIReference/API_media-pipelines-chime_DeleteMediaCapturePipeline.html) API to delete media capture pipelines. All media pipelines stop when the meeting ends.