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Shut down a Vertex AI Workbench instance
To stop any processing for a Vertex AI Workbench instance,
you can shut down the instance.
You incur costs for running an instance, in addition to other potential costs
(see Pricing).
To stop incurring costs for running an
instance, shut down the instance. You continue to incur other potential costs.
To shut down a Vertex AI Workbench instance,
complete the following steps:
In the Google Cloud console, go to the Instances page.
It is
important to stop all running processes in case there are operations that
need to complete before you shut down
your Vertex AI Workbench instance, for example,
I/O processes that are writing to disk.
To stop all running processes:
To show all of the processes that are running, select the
Running
Terminals and Kernels tab.
Next to each running process, click Shutdown all.
Close the browser tab or window for
your Vertex AI Workbench instance.
In the Google Cloud console, return to the Instances page.
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