Delete connections
When you delete a Cross-Cloud Interconnect connection, Googleshuts down your ports, and billing stops immediately.
You must also notify your remote cloud service provider todiscontinue your port in their network and avoid further billing.
Before you can delete a connection, you must delete all of its attachments.
Permissions required for this task
To perform this task, you must have been granted the following permissionsor the following Identity and Access Management (IAM) roles.
Permissions
compute.interconnects.delete
Roles
roles/ownerroles/editorroles/compute.networkAdmin
Console
In the Google Cloud console, go to the Cloud InterconnectPhysicalconnections tab.
Select the connection that you want to delete.
On theInterconnect details page, clickDelete.
In the confirmation box, type the name of the connection that you want todelete.
ClickDelete this Interconnect.
gcloud
Use thegcloud compute interconnects delete command:
gcloud compute interconnects deleteNAME
ReplaceNAME with the name of yourCross-Cloud Interconnect connection.
What's next
To learn more about Cross-Cloud Interconnect, see theCross-Cloud Interconnect overview.
To learn about common issues that you might encounter when usingCross-Cloud Interconnect, seeTroubleshooting.
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Last updated 2026-02-19 UTC.