- NAME
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- gcloud beta iam service-accounts delete - delete a service account from a project
- SYNOPSIS
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gcloud beta iam service-accounts deleteSERVICE_ACCOUNT[--recommend=BOOLEAN_VALUE] [GCLOUD_WIDE_FLAG …]
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- DESCRIPTION
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(BETA)If the service account does not exist, this command returns aPERMISSION_DENIEDerror. - EXAMPLES
- To delete an service account from your project, run:
gcloud beta iam service-accounts delete my-iam-account@my-project.iam.gserviceaccount.com - POSITIONAL ARGUMENTS
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SERVICE_ACCOUNT - The service account to delete. The account should be formatted either as a numeric service account ID or as an email, like this: 123456789876543212345 or my-iam-account@somedomain.com.
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- FLAGS
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--recommend=BOOLEAN_VALUE - If true, checks Active Assist recommendation for the risk level of service account deletion, and issues a warning in the prompt. Optional flag is set to false by default. For details see https://cloud.google.com/recommender/docs/change-risk-recommendations
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- GCLOUD WIDE FLAGS
- These flags are available to all commands:
--access-token-file,--account,--billing-project,--configuration,--flags-file,--flatten,--format,--help,--impersonate-service-account,--log-http,--project,--quiet,--trace-token,--user-output-enabled,--verbosity.Run
$ gcloud helpfor details. - NOTES
- This command is currently in beta and might change without notice. These
variants are also available:
gcloud iam service-accounts deletegcloud alpha iam service-accounts delete
gcloud beta iam service-accounts delete
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Last updated 2026-05-27 UTC.
