Unable to delete network interfaces attached to VPC Endpoint

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I have two Network Interfaces that are attached to a VPC Endpoint. When I try delete the VPC Endpoint I get the following error: Operation is not allowed for requester-managed VPC endpoints for the service. When I try detach the associated Network Interfaces I get: The network interface can't be detached (Network interface is in use by another service).

After some googling and reading this forum, I have seen suggestions something is still using a Network Interface or the VPC Endpoint but I cannot figure out what.

asked 3 years ago2380 views
3 Answers
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Maybe this post will help to find a ressource attached to the interface: https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/knowledge-center/troubleshoot-dependency-error-delete-vpc/ and the CLI command describe-network-interfaces: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/ec2/describe-network-interfaces.html

answered 2 years ago
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I ended up answering my own question. I had an Aurora Serverless DB in a VPC, which creates a VPC endpoint and related network interfaces which are considered "requester-managed". Once I deleted the database, the above resources disappeared.

answered 3 years ago
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Though it had been 2 years ago. This is the question where Google search of ENI “Network interface is in use by another service” will bring at the top. Let me add some more information I found useful. I had the similar issue as the question. I could not figure out what held my ENI. Use this CLI (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/ec2/describe-network-interfaces.html) as rePost-User-5170769 pointed out. For example, if you search eni-123412341234 (I converted every unique values to 123412341234) in the below snippet of output of aws ec2 describe-network-interfaces, you see that Description: field has the hint.

            “Description”: “EFS mount target for fs-123412341234 (fsmt-123412341234)”,  <=== this is a sample hint you want
            “Groups”: [
                {
                    “GroupName”: “security-group-for-inbound-nfs-d-123412341234”,
                    “GroupId”: “sg-123412341234”
                }
            ],
            “InterfaceType”: “efs”,
            “Ipv6Addresses”: [],
            “MacAddress”: “<snip>“,
            “NetworkInterfaceId”: “eni-123412341234”, <=== this is your search point

I deleted the unused EFS resources and then the VPC deletion was successful.

answered a year ago

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