Method: projects.instances.delete

• HTTP request
• Path parameters
• Request body
• Response body
• Authorization scopes
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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

DELETE https://spanner.googleapis.com/v1/{name=projects/*/instances/*}

The URL uses 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: spanner.instances.delete

Request body

The request body must be empty.

Response body

If successful, the response body is empty.

Authorization scopes

Requires one of the following OAuth scopes:

• https://www.googleapis.com/auth/spanner.admin
• https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform

For more information, see the Authentication Overview.