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Use DeleteInternetGateway with a CLI

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Use DeleteInternetGateway with a CLI - Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud

The following code examples show how to use DeleteInternetGateway.

CLI
AWS CLI

To delete an internet gateway

The following delete-internet-gateway example deletes the specified internet gateway.

aws ec2 delete-internet-gateway \ --internet-gateway-id igw-0d0fb496b3EXAMPLE

This command produces no output.

For more information, see Internet gateways in the Amazon VPC User Guide.

PowerShell
Tools for PowerShell

Example 1: This example deletes the specified Internet gateway. You are prompted for confirmation before the operation proceeds, unless you also specify the Force parameter.

Remove-EC2InternetGateway -InternetGatewayId igw-1a2b3c4d

Output:

Confirm Are you sure you want to perform this action? Performing operation "Remove-EC2InternetGateway (DeleteInternetGateway)" on Target "igw-1a2b3c4d". [Y] Yes [A] Yes to All [N] No [L] No to All [S] Suspend [?] Help (default is "Y"):
AWS CLI

To delete an internet gateway

The following delete-internet-gateway example deletes the specified internet gateway.

aws ec2 delete-internet-gateway \ --internet-gateway-id igw-0d0fb496b3EXAMPLE

This command produces no output.

For more information, see Internet gateways in the Amazon VPC User Guide.

For a complete list of AWS SDK developer guides and code examples, see Create Amazon EC2 resources using an AWS SDK. This topic also includes information about getting started and details about previous SDK versions.

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