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Deleting your deployment and removing your data

Deleting your deployment and removing your data

When an IBM Cloud® Databases deployment is deleted, it is put in a soft-deleted state for 3 days after which it is removed. Soft-deleted deployments can be recovered by following the steps below.

After the 3-day soft-deletion period has ended, or if a hard deletion is issued, deployments are no longer recoverable.

Deleting your deployment in the user interface

To delete your deployment from the Resource list section dashboard of the IBM Cloud® dashboard, select your deployment. Then, in the overflow menu Stacked three dots icon click Delete service from the drop-down list.

Restoring a soft-deleted instance using the UI

Soft-deleted instances must be restored using the CLI.

Deleting your deployment using the CLI

By using the CLI, you can delete your existing IBM Cloud® Databases deployment with the ibmcloud resource service-instance-delete command:

ibmcloud resource service-instance-delete <INSTANCE_NAME_OR_CRN>

You can further hard-delete an instance by using ibmcloud resource reclamations to list soft-deleted instances, followed by ibmcloud resource reclamation-delete <RECLAMATION ID> to hard-delete it.

Instances hard-deleted by ibmcloud resource reclamation-delete are unrecoverable and cannot be restored.

Restoring a soft-deleted instance using the CLI

You can use the following command to list the soft-deleted instances that are available for reclamation:

ibmcloud resource reclamations

Then, use the following command to recover them:

ibmcloud resource reclamation-restore <RECLAMATION ID>

Restoring an IBM Cloud® Databases deployment from a soft-deleted state may take several hours.

Cryptoshredding keys

Key Protect provides cryptoshredding, which is deletion of a key that is in use by IBM Cloud® services, including your Cloud Databases deployments.

Cryptoshredding is a destructive action. When the key is deleted, your data is unrecoverable even from a soft delete state.

Backups removal

Backups cannot be manually deleted or removed. However, if you delete your deployment, its backups are deleted automatically.