Deleting an Amazon DocumentDB subnet group - Amazon DocumentDB
This documentation is a draft for private preview for regions in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud. Documentation content will continue to evolve. Published: January 9, 2026.

Deleting an Amazon DocumentDB subnet group

You can use the AWS Management Console or AWS CLI to delete an Amazon DocumentDB subnet group. However, you cannot delete the default subnet group.

Using the AWS Management Console

You can use the AWS Management Console to delete a subnet group. But you can't delete the default subnet group.

To delete a subnet group

  1. Sign in to the AWS Management Console, and open the Amazon DocumentDB console at https://eusc-de-east-1.console.amazonaws-eusc.eu/docdb.

  2. In the navigation pane, choose Subnet groups. Then choose the button to the left of the subnet group's name. Remember that you can't delete the default subnet group.

    Tip

    If you don't see the navigation pane on the left side of your screen, choose the menu icon (Hamburger menu icon with three horizontal lines.) in the upper-left corner of the page.

  3. Choose Actions, and then choose Delete.

  4. In the confirmation dialog box:

    • To delete the subnet group, choose Delete.

    • To keep the subnet group, choose Cancel.

Using the AWS CLI

To delete an Amazon DocumentDB subnet group using the AWS CLI, use the delete-db-subnet-group operation with the following parameter.

Parameter

  • --db-subnet-group-name—Required. The name of the Amazon DocumentDB subnet group to delete. Remember that you can't delete the default subnet group.

The following code deletes sample-subnet-group.

For Linux, macOS, or Unix:

aws docdb delete-db-subnet-group \
    --db-subnet-group-name sample-subnet-group

For Windows:

aws docdb delete-db-subnet-group ^
    --db-subnet-group-name sample-subnet-group

This operation produces no output.