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Method: projects.instances.delete
Deletes an instance.
Immediately upon completion of the request:
Billing ceases for all of the instance's reserved resources.
Soon afterward:
The instance and all of its databases immediately and irrevocably disappear from the API. All data in the databases is permanently deleted.
HTTP request
Choose a location:
global europe-west8 me-central2 us-central1 us-central2 us-east1 us-east4 us-east5 us-south1 us-west1 us-west2 us-west3 us-west4 us-west8 us-east7
The URLs use gRPC Transcoding syntax.
Path parameters
Parameters
name
string
Required. The name of the instance to be deleted. Values are of the form projects/<project>/instances/<instance>
Authorization requires the following IAM permission on the specified resource name:
Request body
The request body must be empty.
Response body
If successful, the response body is an empty JSON object.
Authorization scopes
Requires one of the following OAuth scopes:
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/spanner.adminhttps://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform For more information, see the Authentication Overview .
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Last updated 2025-06-18 UTC.
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