Delete a placement group - Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
This documentation is a draft for private preview for regions in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud. Documentation content will continue to evolve. Published: December 30, 2025.

Delete a placement group

If you need to replace a placement group or no longer need one, you can delete it. Before you can delete a placement group, it must contain no instances. You can terminate the instances, move them to another placement group, or remove them from the placement group.

Console
To delete a placement group

  1. Open the Amazon EC2 console at https://eusc-de-east-1.console.amazonaws-eusc.eu/ec2/.

  2. In the navigation pane, choose Placement Groups.

  3. Select the placement group and choose Actions, Delete.

  4. When prompted for confirmation, enter Delete and then choose Delete.

AWS CLI
To delete a placement group

Use the delete-placement-group command.

aws ec2 delete-placement-group --group-name my-cluster
PowerShell
To delete a placement group

Use the Remove-EC2PlacementGroup cmdlet.

Remove-EC2PlacementGroup -GroupName my-cluster