How to Delete Azure Resource Groups Using PowerShell

Connect to Microsoft Azure PowerShell

First, you need connect to Microsoft Azure PowerShell, there’re two ways to run PowerShell commands in Microsoft Azure:

Method 1: From Azure PowerShell modules installed in a computer.

Method 2: From Azure Cloud Shell using browsers.

Delete a Azure Resource Group

1. Get the list of resource groups in the current subscription.

Get-AzResourceGroup | FT

ResourceGroupName          Location ProvisioningState Tags TagsTable ResourceId
-----------------          -------- ----------------- ---- --------- ----------
NetworkWatcherRG           eastus   Succeeded                        /subscriptions/089d4ee9-... 
cloud-shell-storage-eastus eastus   Succeeded                        /subscriptions/089d4ee9-... 
EastUS-RG                  eastus   Succeeded                        /subscriptions/089d4ee9-...

2. But before using this command, make sure that no usable resources exist in the resource group that you want to delete. To check if the resources are available in the resource group, use the below command. Here we are using the EastUS-RG resource group name.

Get-AzResource -ResourceGroupName "EastUS-RG" | FT

Name           ResourceGroupName ResourceType                                 Location
----           ----------------- ------------                                 --------
vm-001-OS      EASTUS-RG         Microsoft.Compute/disks                      eastus
vm-001         EastUS-RG         Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines            eastus
vm-001/BGInfo  EastUS-RG         Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines/extensions eastus
vm-001-NIC     EastUS-RG         Microsoft.Network/networkInterfaces          eastus
EastUS-vNet-SG EastUS-RG         Microsoft.Network/networkSecurityGroups      eastus
vm-001-IP      EastUS-RG         Microsoft.Network/publicIPAddresses          eastus
EastUS-vNet    EastUS-RG         Microsoft.Network/virtualNetworks            eastus

3. Once you are confirmed that you need to delete the Resource Group then use the below command to delete the resource group.

Note When you use the -Force parameter, you won’t be prompted for deletion confirmation.

Remove-AzResourceGroup -Name "eastus-rg" -Verbose    

Confirm
Are you sure you want to remove resource group 'eastus-rg'
[Y] Yes  [N] No  [S] Suspend  [?] Help (default is "Y"): 

VERBOSE: Performing the operation "Removing resource group ..." on target "eastus-rg".
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