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This page explains how to delete your Managed Airflow environment. ## Resources that are not deleted automatically Deleting your environment does not delete the following data in your project: - Your environment's Cloud Storage bucket. - Cloud Logging logs. To avoid incurring charges to your Google Cloud account, export your data and [delete the environment's bucket](https://docs.cloud.google.com/storage/docs/deleting-buckets) and Cloud Logging logs, as needed. > [!NOTE] > **Note:** As an alternative, you can reuse your environment's bucket by specifying it [as a custom bucket](https://docs.cloud.google.com/composer/docs/composer-3/custom-bucket) for a new environment. For example, you can do so to preserve existing policies or CI/CD integrations. If you use [alerting policies](https://docs.cloud.google.com/monitoring/alerts/manage-alerts) to monitor your environment's metrics, delete these policies before deleting your environment. ## Delete a Managed Airflow environment ### Console 1. Delete the Managed Airflow environment: 1. In the Google Cloud console, go to the **Environments** page. [Go to Environments](https://console.cloud.google.com/composer/environments) 2. Select your environment and click **Delete**. 3. Wait until the environment is deleted. 2. Delete your environment's bucket. Managed Airflow does not delete the environment's bucket automatically. > [!WARNING] > **Warning:** Deleting your environment's bucket deletes all objects stored within the bucket, such as DAGs and plugins. You might not be able to recover these objects, depending on the [bucket's settings](https://docs.cloud.google.com/storage/docs/soft-delete) and the length of time since the bucket was deleted. 1. In the Google Cloud console, go to the **Storage** \> **Browser** page. [Go to Storage \> Browser](https://console.cloud.google.com/storage/browser) 2. Select the environment's bucket and click **Delete** . For example, this bucket can be named `us-central1-example-environ-c1616fe8-bucket`. ### gcloud 1. Delete the Managed Airflow environment: gcloud composer environments delete ENVIRONMENT_NAME \ --location LOCATION Replace: - `ENVIRONMENT_NAME` with the name of the environment. - `LOCATION` with the region where the environment is located. 2. Delete your environment's bucket. Managed Airflow does not delete the environment's bucket automatically. > [!WARNING] > **Warning:** Deleting your environment's bucket deletes all objects stored within the bucket, such as DAGs and plugins. You might not be able to recover these objects, depending on the [bucket's settings](https://docs.cloud.google.com/storage/docs/soft-delete) and the length of time since the bucket was deleted. gcloud storage rm gs://BUCKET_NAME --recursive Replace: - `BUCKET_NAME` with the name of your environment's bucket. For example, this bucket can be named `us-central1-example-environ-c1616fe8-bucket`. ### API To delete an environment, construct an [`environments.delete`](https://docs.cloud.google.com/composer/docs/reference/rest/v1/projects.locations.environments/delete) API request with the environment ID. > [!CAUTION] > **Caution:** Managed Airflow doesn't automatically delete the environment's bucket. If it's no longer needed, delete it manually. ### Terraform To delete an environment using Terraform, remove the Managed Airflow configuration from your overall resource configuration and run `terraform apply`. > [!CAUTION] > **Caution:** Managed Airflow does not automatically delete the environment's bucket. If it's no longer needed, delete it manually. ## What's next - [Create environments](https://docs.cloud.google.com/composer/docs/composer-3/create-environments) - [Enable and disable Managed Airflow service](https://docs.cloud.google.com/composer/docs/composer-3/enable-composer-service)