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Cloud Enterprise Network:DeleteCen

Last Updated:Nov 03, 2025

Deletes a Cloud Enterprise Network (CEN) instance.

Operation description

DeleteCen is an asynchronous operation. After a request is sent, the system returns a request ID and runs the task in the background. You can call DescribeCens to query the status of a CEN instance.

  • If the CEN instance is in the Deleting state, the CEN instance is being deleted. In this case, you can query the CEN instance but cannot perform other operations.

  • If the CEN instance cannot be found, the CEN instance is deleted.

Prerequisites

The CEN instance that you want to delete is not associated with a bandwidth plan, and the transit router associated with the CEN instance does not have a network instance connection or a custom route table.

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RAM authorization

The table below describes the authorization required to call this API. You can define it in a Resource Access Management (RAM) policy. The table's columns are detailed below:

  • Action: The actions can be used in the Action element of RAM permission policy statements to grant permissions to perform the operation.

  • API: The API that you can call to perform the action.

  • Access level: The predefined level of access granted for each API. Valid values: create, list, get, update, and delete.

  • Resource type: The type of the resource that supports authorization to perform the action. It indicates if the action supports resource-level permission. The specified resource must be compatible with the action. Otherwise, the policy will be ineffective.

    • For APIs with resource-level permissions, required resource types are marked with an asterisk (*). Specify the corresponding Alibaba Cloud Resource Name (ARN) in the Resource element of the policy.

    • For APIs without resource-level permissions, it is shown as All Resources. Use an asterisk (*) in the Resource element of the policy.

  • Condition key: The condition keys defined by the service. The key allows for granular control, applying to either actions alone or actions associated with specific resources. In addition to service-specific condition keys, Alibaba Cloud provides a set of common condition keys applicable across all RAM-supported services.

  • Dependent action: The dependent actions required to run the action. To complete the action, the RAM user or the RAM role must have the permissions to perform all dependent actions.

Action

Access level

Resource type

Condition key

Dependent action

cen:DeleteCen

delete

*CenInstance

acs:cen:*:{#accountId}:ceninstance/{#ceninstanceId}

None None

Request parameters

Parameter

Type

Required

Description

Example

CenId

string

Yes

The CEN instance ID.

cen-7qthudw0ll6jmc****

Response elements

Element

Type

Description

Example

object

RequestId

string

The request ID.

5903EE99-D542-4E14-BC65-AAC1CB2D3D03

Examples

Success response

JSON format

{
  "RequestId": "5903EE99-D542-4E14-BC65-AAC1CB2D3D03"
}

Error codes

HTTP status code

Error code

Error message

Description

400 OperationFailed.DeleteCenWithCustomRouteTable Operation failed because you are not allowed to delete the CEN with the custom transit router route table. The error message returned because you are not allowed to delete the CEN instance unless all custom route tables are deleted from the CEN instance.
400 OperationFailed.DeleteCenWithRouteEntry Operation failed because you are not allowed to delete the CEN with the transit router route entry. The error message returned because you are not allowed to delete the CEN instance unless all custom route entries are deleted from the CEN instance.
400 OperationFailed.MulticastDomainExist Operation is invalid because multicast domain exists. The error message returned because the transit router is associated with a multicast domain. Disassociate the transit router from the multicast domain before you delete the transit router.
400 OperationFailed.PrefixListAssociationExist Operation is invalid because prefixList association exists.
400 OperationFailed.AggregationRouteExist Operation is invalid because transit router aggregation route exists.
400 OperationFailed.TrafficMarkingPolicyExist Operation is invalid because transit router traffic marking policy exists.
400 OperationUnsupported.action This action is not support. The error message returned because this operation is not supported in the specified region.
400 InvalidParameter Invalid parameter. The error message returned because the parameter is set to an invalid value.
400 Unauthorized The AccessKeyId is unauthorized. The error message returned because you do not have the permissions to perform this operation.
400 OperationFailed.TrafficQosPolicyExist Operation is invalid because traffic qos policy exists. The error message returned because this operation is not supported when a QoS policy exists. Delete the QoS policy and try again.

See Error Codes for a complete list.

Release notes

See Release Notes for a complete list.