Delete a network interface - 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: January 3, 2026.

Delete a network interface

Deleting a network interface releases all attributes associated with the interface and releases any private IP addresses or Elastic IP addresses to be used by another instance.

You can't delete a network interface that is in use. First, you must detach the network interface.

Console
To delete a network interface

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

  2. In the navigation pane, choose Network Interfaces.

  3. Select the checkbox for the network interface, and then choose Actions, Delete.

  4. When prompted for confirmation, choose Delete.

AWS CLI
To delete a network interface

Use the following delete-network-interface command.

aws ec2 delete-network-interface --network-interface-id eni-1234567890abcdef0
PowerShell
To delete a network interface

Use the Remove-EC2NetworkInterface cmdlet.

Remove-EC2NetworkInterface -NetworkInterfaceId eni-1234567890abcdef0