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Last updated: 2025-10-30 21:41:56

1. API Description

Domain name for API request: ecm.intl.tencentcloudapi.com.

This API is used to terminate an instance.

A maximum of 20 requests can be initiated per second for this API.

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2. Input Parameters

The following request parameter list only provides API request parameters and some common parameters. For the complete common parameter list, see Common Request Parameters.

Parameter Name	Required	Type	Description
Action	Yes	String	Common Params. The value used for this API: TerminateInstances.
Version	Yes	String	Common Params. The value used for this API: 2019-07-19.
Region	No	String	Common Params. This parameter is not required for this API.
InstanceIdSet.N	Yes	Array of String	List of IDs of the instances to be terminated.
TerminateDelay	No	Boolean	Whether to enable scheduled termination. Default value: no.
TerminateTime	No	String	Scheduled termination time, such as `2019-08-05 12:01:30`. If you don't enable scheduled termination, you can ignore this parameter.
AssociatedResourceDestroy	No	Boolean	Whether to delete the bound ENI and EIP. Default value: true. true: the ENI and EIP will also be deleted; false: only the server will be terminated, while the ENI and EIP will be retained.

3. Output Parameters

Parameter Name	Type	Description
RequestId	String	The unique request ID, which is returned for each request. RequestId is required for locating a problem.

4. Example

Example1 Terminating instance

This example shows you how to terminate an instance.

Input Example

https://ecm.intl.tencentcloudapi.com/?Action=TerminateInstances
&TerminateDelay=true
&InstanceIdSet.0=ein-197252sp
&InstanceIdSet.1=ein-187232ag
&TerminateTime=2019-08-01 18:32:56
&<Common request parameters>

Output Example

{
    "Response": {
        "RequestId": "df348fj3-03g7-4ss0-y7sj-78e2322a3242"
    }
}

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6. Error Code

The following only lists the error codes related to the API business logic. For other error codes, see Common Error Codes.

Error Code	Description
FailedOperation.InternalOperationFailure	Internal error.
FailedOperation.OperationNotAllow	The current operation is not allowed.
InvalidParameter.InvalidDataFormat	The data format is incorrect.
InvalidParameterValue.InvalidInstanceID	The instance ID is invalid.
InvalidParameterValue.InvalidTime	The time is invalid.
InvalidParameterValue.ParameterValueTooLarge	The parameter value exceeds the limit.
InvalidParameterValue.TerminateTimeSmaller	The scheduled termination time is before the current time.
ResourceNotFound.InstanceNotExist	The instance is invalid.
UnauthorizedOperation.ForbiddenOperation	You don't have the permission to perform this operation.

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