---
title: "Delete a VPC"
description: "Delete a VPC in MyAccount after removing its resources, subnets, and peering connections, so that billing for it stops."
content_type: "how-to"
product: "vpc"
platform: "MyAccount"
url: "/myaccount/vpc/how-to/delete-a-vpc/"
topic: ["manage"]
relationships: {"requires":["/myaccount/vpc/how-to/delete-a-subnet/","/myaccount/vpc/how-to/pause-restart-or-delete-a-peering-connection/"]}
---

# Delete a VPC

Deleting a VPC removes the network, its gateway, and its address range from your account, and
billing for it stops. A VPC can be deleted once it is empty: no resources, no subnets, and no
peering connections.

## Before you begin

Select the VPC in **Network > VPC** and work through its tabs:

- **Associated Nodes**, **Associated Load Balancers**, **Associated Kubernetes**, and **Associated
  Scale Groups** list nothing. For a node, detach the VPC as
  [Attach a node to a VPC](/myaccount/node/how-to/attach-a-node-to-a-vpc/) describes, or delete the
  node. A load balancer, Kubernetes cluster, scale group, or database is moved off or deleted from
  its own product.
- **Subnet** lists no subnets. See [Delete a subnet](/myaccount/vpc/how-to/delete-a-subnet/).
- **Peering Connections** lists no connections. See
  [Pause, restart, or delete a peering connection](/myaccount/vpc/how-to/pause-restart-or-delete-a-peering-connection/).
- The VPC is **Active**.

## Delete the VPC

A deleted VPC cannot be brought back. If you will build it again, note its **CIDR** and its settings
first.

1. Open the VPC's actions menu and choose **Delete VPC**.
2. In **Delete VPC**, tick **I understand and I want to delete this VPC:** followed by its name, and
   click **Delete**.

A message confirms the delete, and the VPC leaves the list.

For a committed VPC, the dialog first warns that the VPC is reserved until the end of its term. You
have already paid for the term, and that charge stands if you delete early.

Each message a delete can show, and the thing on the VPC it points to, is in
[Troubleshooting VPC](/myaccount/vpc/troubleshooting/vpc/).