Delete reservations

This document explains how to delete reservations. To learn how to delete future reservation requests, see Cancel or delete future reservation requests instead.

Delete a reservation to stop incurring charges for reserved resources that you no longer need.

Limitations

Before you delete a reservation, consider the following:

  • You can only delete a shared reservation in the same project where you created it.

  • You can only delete a specifically targeted reservation if no Compute Engine instances consume it. If any instances consume the reservation, then, before you delete it, do one of the following:

    • Delete the instances

    • Stop or suspend the instances

  • You can only delete an auto-created reservation for a future reservation after its reservation period ends.

  • You can only delete a reservation that is attached to a commitment if you first detach it by replacing the reservation.

Before you begin

Required roles

To get the permission that you need to delete reservations, ask your administrator to grant you the Compute Admin (roles/compute.admin) IAM role on the project. For more information about granting roles, see Manage access to projects, folders, and organizations.

This predefined role contains the compute.reservations.delete permission, which is required to delete reservations.

You might also be able to get this permission with custom roles or other predefined roles.

Delete a reservation

If you delete a reservation that can be automatically consumed by any matching compute instances, then any instances that consume the deleted reservation keep running. You continue to incur charges for those instances.

You can delete single reservations or multiple reservations at once. For multiple reservations, use the Google Cloud console. For single reservations, select any of the following options:

Console

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

    Go to Reservations

  2. On the On-demand reservations tab (default), select the reservations that you want to delete.

  3. Click Delete.

  4. To confirm, click Delete.

gcloud

To delete a reservation, use the gcloud compute reservations delete command:

gcloud compute reservations delete RESERVATION_NAME \
    --zone=ZONE

Replace the following:

  • RESERVATION_NAME: the name of the reservation.

  • ZONE: the zone where the reservation exists.

Go 

import (
	"context"
	"fmt"
	"io"

	compute "cloud.google.com/go/compute/apiv1"
	computepb "cloud.google.com/go/compute/apiv1/computepb"
)

// Deletes the reservation for given project and zone
func deleteReservation(w io.Writer, projectID, zone, reservationName string) error {
	// projectID := "your_project_id"
	// zone := "us-west3-a"
	// reservationName := "your_reservation_name"

	ctx := context.Background()
	reservationsClient, err := compute.NewReservationsRESTClient(ctx)
	if err != nil {
		return err
	}
	defer reservationsClient.Close()

	req := &computepb.DeleteReservationRequest{
		Project:     projectID,
		Reservation: reservationName,
		Zone:        zone,
	}

	op, err := reservationsClient.Delete(ctx, req)
	if err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("unable to delete reservation: %w", err)
	}

	if err = op.Wait(ctx); err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("unable to wait for the operation: %w", err)
	}

	fmt.Fprintf(w, "Reservation deleted\n")

	return nil
}

Java 

import com.google.cloud.compute.v1.DeleteReservationRequest;
import com.google.cloud.compute.v1.Operation;
import com.google.cloud.compute.v1.ReservationsClient;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeoutException;

public class DeleteReservation {

  public static void main(String[] args)
      throws IOException, ExecutionException, InterruptedException, TimeoutException {
    // TODO(developer): Replace these variables before running the sample.
    // Project ID or project number of the Cloud project you want to use.
    String projectId = "YOUR_PROJECT_ID";
    // Name of the reservation you want to delete.
    String reservationName = "YOUR_RESERVATION_NAME";
    // Name of the zone.
    String zone = "us-central1-a";

    deleteReservation(projectId, zone, reservationName);
  }

  // Delete a reservation from the project.
  public static void deleteReservation(String projectId, String zone, String reservationName)
      throws IOException, ExecutionException, InterruptedException, TimeoutException {
    /* Initialize client that will be used to send requests. This client only needs to be created
       once, and can be reused for multiple requests. */
    try (ReservationsClient reservationsClient = ReservationsClient.create()) {

      DeleteReservationRequest deleteReservationRequest = DeleteReservationRequest.newBuilder()
          .setProject(projectId)
          .setZone(zone)
          .setReservation(reservationName)
          .build();

      Operation response = reservationsClient.deleteAsync(
          deleteReservationRequest).get(5, TimeUnit.MINUTES);

      if (response.getStatus() == Operation.Status.DONE) {
        System.out.println("Deleted reservation: " + reservationName);
      }
    }
  }
}

Node.js 

// Import the Compute library
const computeLib = require('@google-cloud/compute');
// Instantiate a reservationsClient
const reservationsClient = new computeLib.ReservationsClient();
// Instantiate a zoneOperationsClient
const zoneOperationsClient = new computeLib.ZoneOperationsClient();
/**
 * TODO(developer): Update/uncomment these variables before running the sample.
 */
// The ID of the project where your reservation is located.
const projectId = await reservationsClient.getProjectId();
// The zone where your reservation is located.
const zone = 'us-central1-a';
// The name of the reservation to delete.
// reservationName = 'reservation-01';

async function callDeleteReservation() {
  // Delete the reservation
  const [response] = await reservationsClient.delete({
    project: projectId,
    reservation: reservationName,
    zone,
  });

  let operation = response.latestResponse;

  // Wait for the delete reservation operation to complete.
  while (operation.status !== 'DONE') {
    [operation] = await zoneOperationsClient.wait({
      operation: operation.name,
      project: projectId,
      zone: operation.zone.split('/').pop(),
    });
  }

  console.log(`Reservation: ${reservationName} deleted.`);
}
await callDeleteReservation();

Python 

from __future__ import annotations

import sys
from typing import Any

from google.api_core.extended_operation import ExtendedOperation
from google.cloud import compute_v1


def wait_for_extended_operation(
    operation: ExtendedOperation, verbose_name: str = "operation", timeout: int = 300
) -> Any:
    """
    Waits for the extended (long-running) operation to complete.

    If the operation is successful, it will return its result.
    If the operation ends with an error, an exception will be raised.
    If there were any warnings during the execution of the operation
    they will be printed to sys.stderr.

    Args:
        operation: a long-running operation you want to wait on.
        verbose_name: (optional) a more verbose name of the operation,
            used only during error and warning reporting.
        timeout: how long (in seconds) to wait for operation to finish.
            If None, wait indefinitely.

    Returns:
        Whatever the operation.result() returns.

    Raises:
        This method will raise the exception received from `operation.exception()`
        or RuntimeError if there is no exception set, but there is an `error_code`
        set for the `operation`.

        In case of an operation taking longer than `timeout` seconds to complete,
        a `concurrent.futures.TimeoutError` will be raised.
    """
    result = operation.result(timeout=timeout)

    if operation.error_code:
        print(
            f"Error during {verbose_name}: [Code: {operation.error_code}]: {operation.error_message}",
            file=sys.stderr,
            flush=True,
        )
        print(f"Operation ID: {operation.name}", file=sys.stderr, flush=True)
        raise operation.exception() or RuntimeError(operation.error_message)

    if operation.warnings:
        print(f"Warnings during {verbose_name}:\n", file=sys.stderr, flush=True)
        for warning in operation.warnings:
            print(f" - {warning.code}: {warning.message}", file=sys.stderr, flush=True)

    return result


def delete_compute_reservation(
    project_id: str,
    zone: str = "us-central1-a",
    reservation_name="your-reservation-name",
) -> ExtendedOperation:
    """
    Deletes a compute reservation in Google Cloud.
    Args:
        project_id (str): The ID of the Google Cloud project.
        zone (str): The zone of the reservation.
        reservation_name (str): The name of the reservation to delete.
    Returns:
        The operation response from the reservation deletion request.
    """

    client = compute_v1.ReservationsClient()

    operation = client.delete(
        project=project_id,
        zone=zone,
        reservation=reservation_name,
    )

    wait_for_extended_operation(operation, "Reservation deletion")
    print(operation.status)
    # Example response:
    # Status.DONE
    return operation

REST

To delete a reservation, make a DELETE request to the reservation.delete method:

DELETE https://compute.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/PROJECT_ID/zones/ZONE/reservations/RESERVATION_NAME

Replace the following:

  • PROJECT_ID: the ID of the project where you created the reservation.

  • ZONE: the zone where the reservation exists.

  • RESERVATION_NAME: the name of the reservation.

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