Turn off Gemini Cloud Assist

Note: Use of this Preview offering of Gemini Cloud Assist is subject to the Google Cloud Agreement, including the Pre-GA Offering Terms of the Google Cloud Specific Service Terms, as supplemented by the terms for the Gemini for Google Cloud Trusted Tester Program.

This page shows you how to turn off Gemini Cloud Assist.

For information about changing the settings that control sharing Gemini Cloud Assist prompts and responses with Google, see Configure prompt and response sharing for Gemini Cloud Assist.

Turn off Gemini Cloud Assist

To turn off Gemini Cloud Assist, do the following:

Console

1. To limit access for specific users in your organization, remove Identity and Access Management permissions for Gemini Cloud Assist:

   1. Go to the IAM & Admin page.

      Go to IAM & Admin

   2. In the Principal column, find a principal for which you want to remove access to Gemini Cloud Assist, and then click Edit principal in that row.

   3. In the Edit access pane, do the following:

      1. Locate the Gemini for Google Cloud User role, and then click Delete role.

      2. Locate the Gemini Cloud Assist User role, and then click Delete role.

         Note: Depending on when you granted the principal access to Gemini Cloud Assist, they might not have both the Gemini for Google Cloud User and Gemini Cloud Assist User roles granted to them.

      3. Locate the Service Usage Consumer role, and then click Delete role.

   4. Click Save.

2. Turn off the Gemini Cloud Assist API (geminicloudassist.googleapis.com):

   1. Go to the Enabled APIs & services page.

      Go to Enabled APIs & services

   2. To select the Google Cloud project where you want to disable the Gemini Cloud Assist API, do one of the following:

      • In the Select a recent project section, click a Google Cloud project.

      • Use the Select a resource dialog:

        1. Click Select project.
        2. In the Select a project dialog, click the name of the Google Cloud project for which you want to disable the API.

   3. Click the Gemini Cloud Assist API entry. If you need help finding the API, use the Search field in the Google Cloud console toolbar.

   4. Click Disable API.

   Note: In some cases, such as projects which enabled Gemini Cloud Assist prior to April 2025, this API might already be disabled.

3. Optional: If you are disabling all Gemini for Google Cloud products, then repeat the previous step to turn off the Gemini for Google Cloud API.

gcloud

1. In the Google Cloud console, activate Cloud Shell.

   Activate Cloud Shell

2. To limit access for specific users in your organization, remove Identity and Access Management permissions for Gemini Cloud Assist:

   1. Remove the role roles/cloudaicompanion.user using the command gcloud projects remove-iam-policy-binding:

      gcloud projects remove-iam-policy-binding PROJECT_ID \
      --member=PRINCIPAL --role=roles/cloudaicompanion.user
      

      Replace the following:

      • PROJECT_ID: the ID of your Google Cloud project—for example,1234567890.
      • PRINCIPAL: the identifier for the principal—for example, user:[e-mail].

      The output is a list of policy bindings.

      Note: Depending on when you granted the principal access to Gemini Cloud Assist, they might not have the roles/cloudaicompanion.user role granted to them.

   2. Repeat the previous step for the following roles:

      • roles/geminicloudassist.user
      • roles/serviceusage.serviceUsageConsumer
      Note: Depending on when you granted the principal access to Gemini Cloud Assist, they might not have the roles/geminicloudassist.user role granted to them.

3. Turn off the Gemini Cloud Assist API (geminicloudassist.googleapis.com) using the command gcloud services disable:

    gcloud services disable geminicloudassist.googleapis.com
   

   If successful, the command produces output similar to the following:

    Waiting for async operation operations/acf.e9d0943b-55d9-4ac0-8af4-745e1b8983f8 to complete...
    Operation finished successfully.
   

   Note: In some cases, such as projects which enabled Gemini Cloud Assist prior to April 2025, this API might already be disabled.

4. Optional: If you are disabling all Gemini for Google Cloud products, then repeat the previous step to turn off the cloudaicompanion.googleapis.com API.