In the Overview page of your cluster, click Delete cluster.
In the Delete cluster dialog that appears, enter your cluster ID.
Click Delete.
You can't delete an AlloyDB cluster that contains any instances using the Google Cloud console.
To override this default behavior, use the gcloud CLI to specify the
--force option in the clusters delete command.
REGION_ID: The region where the cluster is placed.
PROJECT_ID: The ID of the project where the cluster is placed.
Deleting a cluster that contains instances
Attempts to delete an AlloyDB cluster that contains any
instances will fail. To override this behavior, specify the
--force option in the clusters delete command to
direct AlloyDB to delete all instances in the cluster and then
delete the cluster itself; for example:
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