How do I delete my Google Cloud Platform Account?

Question

I have 2 cloud accounts and only need one, how do I delete or cancel my account so I do not have to pay for the one?

Answer 1

1. "Disable" the billing. You can find the partly-accurate instructions here: https://support.google.com/cloud/answer/6288653?hl=en
2. Find the "IAM" panel in the hamburger menu, where you have to copy-paste the names of the services (random numbers and letters) and then wait several seconds for the confirm button to turn from gray to black. For some reason, you have to delete these one at a time, in a specific order. (Note: Even if you didn't use the service, you should double-check this, because there was a lot here that I did not create.)
3. Go to https://console.cloud.google.com/iam-admin/projects and trashbin the projects. Again, there was a project here called "numeric-abbey-xxxxxx" that I did not create, nor did I accept any invitations or join any groups.

4. To "close" your billing account:

   a. Go to the Cloud Platform Console https://console.cloud.google.com/

   b.Hamburger menu: select Billing.

   c. Select the billing account name. (Do this twice.)

   d. Click "Close billing account."

   e. Type "close" to confirm.

Note: Google will not entirely "delete" your billing information:

"Upon checking, your billing account is still active. You will need to close it to prevent notifications being sent to your email. We cannot delete the details on your billing account for auditing purposes. Though rest assured that we take privacy very seriously. Once your billing account is closed, all the information will be encrypted and moved to a cold storage."

https://support.google.com/cloud/answer/6288653?hl=en

For some industry perspective, in terms of complexity, this is very unusual. Both as a consumer, developer, working at ISPs, I have never seen such a complex process to close a business account in my 20+ years of hosting. (Academia is another story.) This is not meant to be disparaging or a "rant." Depending on the type of work that you do, maybe complexity is exactly what you're looking for. I believe it's important to know what you're getting into ahead of time.

Answer 2

By "account", I assume that you mean "Google Cloud Platform project", because a "Google Cloud Platform Account" is the same as a Google account, assuming you're referring to user credentials. You don't pay for such an account; you only pay for the resources you use, which are attached to a project.

You can easily delete a project from Google Cloud Console — once you delete it, it will delete any contained resources and you won't be charged for them.

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Note that a project will not cost you anything if it is not consuming any resources.

Thus, there's no need to delete or cancel either your email accounts or projects. As soon as you stop using resources within a particular project, you will stop being charged for those resources.

Answer 3

1. Go to your developer account
2. select project from drop down
3. go top right corner click three dots icon
4. select "project settings"
5. click on "shut down"

Answer 4

This answer is for anyone who arrives at this question wanting to close a billing account and delete their credit card information from it. To delete all my credit cards, I had to close my billing account first.

1. Go to Billing (in the lefthand sidebar, or also https://console.cloud.google.com/billing ) and choose the right billing account you want to close.
2. Go to Billing > Account Management, and click the "X" on the top banner to close this billing account. https://cloud.google.com/billing/docs/how-to/manage-billing-account#close_a_billing_account
3. In Billing > Payment Method, remove your credit card.

Before, I was trying to do 3 before 2, but I kept getting an error requiring another credit card be added. I had to do step 2, then 3 worked.

Answer 5

It is not possible it is like a chicken and egg situation.

1. You need to close the project
2. you can go to Google payments (not google cloud) and keep clicking until you find 'close' billing/payment.
3. Now the last part is the payments profile in google cloud. That will remain(mystery). If you click contact customer, you will be taken to the project page and suprise! you have no project so cannot contact customer.
4. All the documentation says there is an option in google payments profile to close it but there isn't!
5. And then while you wait wondering what is going on, your google cloud billing has disappeared!! So #2 did the trick and you just need to wait a bit.

Answer 6

(This is not a true answer, but a finding of mine that might be useful to others. At least it was critical for me to solve the billing account problem.)

According to Google's instructions " close_a_billing_account ", when you go to Main navigation menu > Billing > Account Management, you can click the "X" on the top to close the billing account.

But many people cannot find the "X" in the "Billing" page (or a "X" for irrelevant thing like "removing filters"). I had the same problem, as shown in Figure 1.

After struggling with GCP console for a while, I accidentally hit the right entrance to the "Billing" page, which showed different UI from the one above. I successfully removed my billing account from there. The page after the billing account removal is given below in Figure 2. It has a frame layout, where I marked the place of the original "X", which is replaced by an "Undo" flag after the account removal.

Unfortunately I don't remember how I got to the right "Billing" page (ie, the Figure 2). I only remember that the "Billing" item (from the GCM main navigation hamburger menu) has a ">" leading to a next-level menu. In the next-level menu, everything worked fine. But often times the "Billing" item in the main menu does not have a ">" to the next-level menu. When you click it, it goes to the UI of Figure 1, rather than the frame layout as in Figure 2.

Anyone knows how to go to the Figure 2 Billing page please feel free to comment so as to make the answer really useful to others.

Answer 7

1. go to https://console.cloud.google.com/home/dashboard page

2. select your project

3. select hamberger button

4. I AM ADMIN menu

5. Select Setting

6. Select Shutdown

7. Type Project ID in text box

finish

Answer 8

Shutting down a project in the console releases all resources used within the project.

To shut down a project:

1. Go to the Cloud Platform Console.
2. Open the console menu Gallery Menu on the top left and select IAM & Admin, then select All projects.
3. Find the name or project ID of the project you want to shut down, then click DELETE PROJECT. A confirmation screen describing what will happen appears.
4. To confirm, enter your project ID and click Shut down.

Shutting down a project stops all billing and traffic serving, shuts down any Google Cloud Platform App Engine applications, and terminates all Compute Engine instances. All project data associated with Google Cloud and Google APIs services becomes inaccessible.

Google is charging for resource usage. If you delete a project, your project will not use any resource and you will not get charged.

Look at the link for reference : https://support.google.com/cloud/answer/6251787?hl=en&ref_topic=6158848