- NAME
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- gcloud beta compute instances suspend - suspend a virtual machine instance
- SYNOPSIS
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gcloud beta compute instances suspendINSTANCE_NAMES[INSTANCE_NAMES…] [--async] [--discard-local-ssd[=DISCARD_LOCAL_SSD]] [--zone=ZONE] [GCLOUD_WIDE_FLAG …]
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- DESCRIPTION
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(BETA)gcloud beta compute instances suspendis used to suspend a Compute Engine virtual machine. Suspending a VM is the equivalent of sleep or standby mode: the guest receives an ACPI S3 suspend signal, after which all VM state is saved to temporary storage. An instance can only be suspended while it is in the RUNNING state. A suspended instance will be put in SUSPENDED state.Note: A suspended instance can be resumed by running the gcloud compute instances resume command.
If a VM has any attached Local SSD disks, you can preserve the Local SSD data when you suspend the VM by setting
--discard-local-ssd=False. Preserving the Local SSD disk data incurs costs and is subject to limitations.Limitations:
- Limitations for suspending a VM: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/suspend-resume-instance#limitations
- Limitations for preserving Local SSD data: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/disks/local-ssd#stop_instance
- EXAMPLES
- To suspend an instance named
test-instancegcloud beta compute instances suspend test-instanceTo suspend an instance named
test-instancethat has a Local SSD, run:gcloud beta compute instances suspend test-instance --discard-local-ssd = TrueUsing
--discard-local-ssdwithout a value defaults toTrue. - POSITIONAL ARGUMENTS
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INSTANCE_NAMES[INSTANCE_NAMES…] - Names of the instances to operate on. For details on valid instance names, refer to the criteria documented under the field 'name' at: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/reference/rest/v1/instances
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- FLAGS
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--async - Return immediately, without waiting for the operation in progress to complete.
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--discard-local-ssd[=DISCARD_LOCAL_SSD] - If set to true, local SSD data is discarded.
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--zone=ZONE - Zone of the instances to operate on. If not specified, you might be prompted to
select a zone (interactive mode only).
gcloudattempts to identify the appropriate zone by searching for resources in your currently active project. If the zone cannot be determined,gcloudprompts you for a selection with all available Google Cloud Platform zones.To avoid prompting when this flag is omitted, the user can set the
compute/zonegcloud config set compute/zone ZONEA list of zones can be fetched by running:
gcloud compute zones listTo unset the property, run:
gcloud config unset compute/zoneAlternatively, the zone can be stored in the environment variable
CLOUDSDK_COMPUTE_ZONE
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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 compute instances suspendgcloud alpha compute instances suspendgcloud preview compute instances suspend
gcloud beta compute instances suspend
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Last updated 2026-05-27 UTC.
