diff --git a/pkgs/development/interpreters/erlang/27-rc3.nix b/pkgs/development/interpreters/erlang/27-rc3.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 77e59672c156..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/interpreters/erlang/27-rc3.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-{ mkDerivation }:
-
-mkDerivation {
-  version = "27.0-rc3";
-  sha256 = "sha256-c2DTIqBd7UxpSv84F1cCB9K+MkJb5OwnWSghtewnw/4=";
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
index ca49ea7496c4..9fd50ff75097 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
@@ -341,6 +341,7 @@ mapAliases ({
   erlangR22 = erlang_22;
   erlang_23 = throw "erlangR23 has been removed in favor of newer versions."; # added 2023-09-11
   erlangR23 = erlang_23;
+  erlang_27-rc3 = throw "erlang_27-rc3 has been removed in favor of erlang_27"; # added 2024-05-20
   etcd_3_3 = throw "etcd_3_3 has been removed because upstream no longer maintains it"; # Added 2023-09-29
   etcher = throw "'etcher' has been removed because it depended on an insecure version of Electron"; # Added 2024-03-14
   eterm = throw "eterm was removed because it is still insecure: https://github.com/mej/Eterm/issues/7"; # Added 2023-09-10
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index cbcb5f59bac0..56f3d8410737 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -17180,7 +17180,7 @@ with pkgs;
   };
 
   inherit (beam.interpreters)
-    erlang erlang_27-rc3 erlang_27 erlang_26 erlang_25 erlang_24
+    erlang erlang_27 erlang_26 erlang_25 erlang_24
     erlang_odbc erlang_javac erlang_odbc_javac
     elixir elixir_1_16 elixir_1_15 elixir_1_14 elixir_1_13 elixir_1_12 elixir_1_11 elixir_1_10
     elixir-ls;
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/beam-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/beam-packages.nix
index 392a7ce532f6..dec1a5d734ce 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/beam-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/beam-packages.nix
@@ -50,15 +50,6 @@ in
       inherit wxSupport systemdSupport;
     };
 
-    erlang_27-rc3 = self.beamLib.callErlang ../development/interpreters/erlang/27-rc3.nix {
-      wxGTK = wxGTK32;
-      parallelBuild = true;
-      autoconf = buildPackages.autoconf269;
-      exdocSupport = true;
-      exdoc = self.packages.erlang_26.ex_doc;
-      inherit wxSupport systemdSupport;
-    };
-
     erlang_26 = self.beamLib.callErlang ../development/interpreters/erlang/26.nix {
       wxGTK = wxGTK32;
       parallelBuild = true;