If you no longer need internet access for a VPC, you can detach the internet gateway from the VPC and then delete it. You can't delete an internet gateway if it's still attached to a VPC. You can't detach an internet gateway if the VPC has resources with associated public IP addresses or Elastic IP addresses.
To detach an internet gateway from a VPC using the console
Open the Amazon VPC console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/vpc/
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In the navigation pane, choose Internet gateways.
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Select the check box for the internet gateway.
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To attach it, choose Actions, Attach to VPC, select an available VPC, and choose Attach internet gateway.
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To detach it, choose Actions, Detach from VPC and choose Detach internet gateway. When prompted for confirmation, choose Detach internet gateway.
To describe your internet gateways, including attachments, using the command line
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describe-internet-gateways
(AWS CLI) -
Get-EC2InternetGateway (AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell)
To detach an internet gateway from a VPC using the command line
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detach-internet-gateway
(AWS CLI) -
Dismount-EC2InternetGateway (AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell)
To delete an internet gateway using the console
Open the Amazon VPC console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/vpc/
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In the navigation pane, choose Internet gateways.
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Select the check box for the internet gateway.
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Choose Actions, Delete internet gateway.
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When prompted for confirmation, enter
delete, and then choose Delete internet gateway.
To delete an internet gateway using the command line
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delete-internet-gateway
(AWS CLI) -
Remove-EC2InternetGateway (AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell)
