- Go to console.cloud.google.com
- Select your project (from drop-down on top nav-bar)
- Select IAM & Admin (from hamburger menu on top-left nav-bar)
- Click Settings in the left-side-bar nav.
- Click SHUT DOWN (image shows DELETE PROJECT)
- Enter text per instructions to confirm project shutdown.
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Deleting a GCP project is usually less of a technical task and more of a governance exercise. One important consideration missing here is the impact of the default recovery period and the need to inventory dependent services before initiating shutdown. In mature cloud environments, teams often implement automated pre-deletion checks to identify active service accounts, shared VPC attachments, DNS zones, Terraform state references, billing exports, log sinks, and long-retention datasets that may still be required for audits or incident investigations. It is also a good practice to treat project deletion as a controlled change with approval workflows and backup validation because restoring an accidentally deleted production project can be significantly more complex than recreating its infrastructure from code.