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Deleting One or More CMKs

Before deleting the CMK, confirm that it is not in use and will not be used. You can check the key usage in either of the following ways:

Prerequisites

  • The key to be deleted is in Enabled, Disabled, or Pending import status.

Constraints

  • A key will not be deleted until its scheduled deletion period expires. You can set the period to a value within the range 7 to 1096 days.

    Before the specified deletion date, you can cancel the deletion if you want to use the CMK. Once the scheduled deletion has taken effect, the CMK will be deleted permanently and you will not be able to decrypt data encrypted by the CMK. Exercise caution when performing this operation.

  • For details about the billing information about a CMK scheduled to be deleted, see Will a CMK Be Charged After It Is Scheduled to Delete?
  • Default keys created by KMS cannot be scheduled for deletion.

Procedure

  1. Log in to the management console.
  2. Click in the upper left corner of the management console and select a region or project.
  3. Click . Choose Security & Compliance > Data Encryption Workshop.
  4. In the row containing the target CMK, click Delete in the Operation column.

    Figure 1 Scheduling the deletion of one CMK

  5. On the key deletion dialog box, enter the deletion delay time.

    Figure 2 Entering the period after which you want the deletion to take effect
    • A key will not be deleted until its scheduled deletion period expires. You can set the period to a value within the range 7 to 1096 days. Before the specified deletion date, you can cancel the deletion if you want to use the CMK.
    • For details about the billing information about a CMK scheduled to be deleted, see Will a CMK Be Charged After It Is Scheduled to Delete?

  6. In the confirmation dialog box, enter DELETE, and click OK. A message is displayed, indicating that the key deletion task is delivered.
  7. If a key is used to encrypt DDS, RDS, or NoSQL, after you click OK, a message "Key XXX is being used by XXX. Are you sure you want to delete it?" is displayed, as shown in Figure 3. Click Yes.

    Figure 3 Confirming the deletion

To schedule the deletion of multiple CMKs at a time, select them and click Delete in the upper left corner of the list.

Parent topic: Managing CMKs