Delete connections

You can delete a Cross-Site Interconnect connection when you no longer need the physical connection between your sites. When you delete the connection, Google shuts down the ports on Google's routers, and billing stops immediately.

You must notify your vendor to remove the Cross-Site Interconnect connections from the unused ports on the Google demarcations.

Before you begin

Before you can delete a connection, you must delete all the wire groups that use the connection.

Permissions required for this task

To perform this task, you must have been granted the following permissions or the following Identity and Access Management (IAM) roles.

Permissions

• compute.interconnects.delete

Roles

• Owner (roles/owner)
• Editor (roles/editor)
• Compute Network Admin (roles/compute.networkAdmin)

Console

1. In the Google Cloud console, go to the Interconnect page.

   Go to Interconnect

2. On the Physical connections tab, for the Cross-Site Interconnect connection that you want to delete, select the options button, and then click Delete.

3. Type the name of the connection to confirm deletion.

4. Select Delete this interconnect.

gcloud

Delete the Cross-Site Interconnect connection by providing the name of the connection to delete:

gcloud compute interconnects delete NAME

What's next

• To create a Cross-Site Interconnect connection, see the Cross-Site Interconnect provisioning overview.

• To help you solve common issues that you might encounter when using Cloud Interconnect, see Troubleshooting.