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When you delete a Dedicated Interconnect connection, Google shuts down
the ports on Google's routers, and billing stops immediately. You must notify
your vendor to remove the Dedicated Interconnect connections from
the unused ports on the Google demarcations.
Before you can delete a connection, you must delete all of its attachments.
Permissions required for this task
To perform this task, you must have been granted the following permissions
or the following Identity and Access Management (IAM) roles.
Permissions
compute.interconnects.delete
Roles
roles/owner
roles/editor
roles/compute.networkAdmin
Console
In the Google Cloud console, go to the Cloud Interconnect Physical
connections tab.
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