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:

1. In the Google Cloud console, go to the Instances page.

   Go to Instances

2. Select the instance that you want to open.

3. Click Open JupyterLab.

   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:

   1. To show all of the processes that are running, select the  Running Terminals and Kernels tab.

   2. Next to each running process, click Shutdown all.

4. Close the browser tab or window for your Vertex AI Workbench instance.

5. In the Google Cloud console, return to the Instances page.

   Go to Instances

6. Select the instance that you want to shut down, and then click square Stop.