Cannot delete a Public IP that has no resources associated with

Question

I was trying to delete the Public IP address 'IP-TestARM', which is not associated to any resources. But the operation failed and the error shows:

'Failed to delete public IP address 'IP-TestARM'. Error: Public IP address /subscriptions/{hideSubsId}/resourceGroups/TestARM/providers/Microsoft.Network/publicIPAddresses/IP-TestARM can not be deleted since it is still allocated to a cloud service. In order to delete the public IP address, delete the associated cloud service and then retry the operation.'

But I cannot identify which resource is this IP associated to. I tried to run the following command in PowerShell:

Get-AzPublicIpAddress -ResourceGroupName "TestARM" -Name "IP-TestARM-Staging" | Select-Object -Property *

The result shows that IpConfigurationText is null and IpConfiguration is empty, providing no useful information.

Can anyone guide me on how to delete this Public IP address?

I'm not sure which resource this IP was previously associated with. I need to identify the resource and ensure it has been successfully deleted. How can I access the logs to verify this?

Answer 1

@Qian Zhuge ,

Welcome to the Microsoft Q&A Platform. Thank you for reaching out & I hope you are doing well.

Did you try to delete the Public IP using Powershell command?

• Remove-AzPublicIpAddress

Are you getting the same error ?

Cheers,

Kapil

Answer 2

Hi,

In Azure Portal->Dashboard->All Resources-> Check 'show hidden types' and make sure that no filters are applied. Check, if there are some resources as reported in the error message while deleting the PIP. Delete those, if listed there and try deleting the PIP again