Deleting a cloud network

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Updated at July 14, 2025

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Before deleting a network, you need to delete all its child resources.
You cannot restore a network after it is deleted.

Management console

CLI

Terraform

API

To delete a cloud network:

In the management console, go to the folder where you need to delete a cloud network.
In the list of services, select Virtual Private Cloud.
Click in the row of the network you need and select Delete.
In the window that opens, click Delete.

If you do not have the Yandex Cloud CLI installed yet, install and initialize it.

By default, the CLI uses the folder specified when creating the profile. To change the default folder, use the yc config set folder-id <folder_ID> command. You can also set a different folder for any specific command using the --folder-name or --folder-id parameter.

View the description of the CLI command for deleting cloud networks:
```
yc vpc network delete --help
```

Get a list of all networks in the default folder:

yc vpc network list

Result:

+----------------------+----------------+
|          ID          |      NAME      |
+----------------------+----------------+
| enpiuvhhd4t8******** | test-network-1 |
| enplom7a98s1******** | default        |
+----------------------+----------------+

Select the network ID or NAME.
Delete the network:
```
yc vpc network delete test-network-1
```

If you do not have Terraform yet, install it and configure the Yandex Cloud provider.

With Terraform, you can quickly create a cloud infrastructure in Yandex Cloud and manage it using configuration files. These files store the infrastructure description written in HashiCorp Configuration Language (HCL). If you change the configuration files, Terraform automatically detects which part of your configuration is already deployed, and what should be added or removed.

Terraform is distributed under the Business Source License. The Yandex Cloud provider for Terraform is distributed under the MPL-2.0 license.

For more information about the provider resources, see the relevant documentation on the Terraform website or its mirror.

To delete a cloud network created with Terraform:

Open the Terraform configuration file and delete the fragment with the cloud network description.

Example of a cloud network description in the Terraform configuration

...
resource "yandex_vpc_network" "default" {
  name        = "network-1"
  description = "My first network"
  labels = {
    tf-label    = "tf-label-value"
    empty-label = ""
  }
}
...

In the command line, navigate to the directory with the Terraform configuration file.
Check the configuration using this command:
```
terraform validate
```
If the configuration is correct, you will get this message:
```
Success! The configuration is valid.
```
Run this command:
```
terraform plan
```
You will see a detailed list of resources. No changes will be made at this step. If the configuration contains any errors, Terraform will point them out.
Apply the changes:
```
terraform apply
```
Type yes and press Enter to confirm changes.

You can check the update using the management console or these CLI commands:
```
yc vpc network list
```

To delete a cloud network, use the delete REST API method for the Network resource or the NetworkService/Delete gRPC API call, and provide the ID of the cloud network to delete in the networkId request parameter.

To get the cloud network ID, use the list REST API method for the Network resource or the NetworkService/List gRPC API call and provide the folder ID in the folderId request parameter.

To learn how to find out the folder ID, see Getting the folder ID.

Deleting a cloud network

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