User pool deletion protection

To make it so that your administrators don't accidentally delete your user pool, activate deletion protection. With deletion protection active, you must confirm that you want to delete your user pool before you delete it. When you delete a user pool in the Amazon Web Services Management Console, you can deactivate deletion protection at the same time. When you accept the prompt to deactivate deletion protection and confirm your intention to delete, as shown in the following image, Amazon Cognito deletes your user pool.

When you want to delete a user pool with an Amazon Cognito API request, you must first change DeletionProtection to Inactive in an UpdateUserPool request. If you don't deactivate deletion protection, Amazon Cognito returns an InvalidParameterException error. After you deactivate deletion protection, you can delete the user pool in a DeleteUserPool request.

Amazon Cognito activates Deletion protection by default when you create a new user pool in the Amazon Web Services Management Console. When you create a user pool with the CreateUserPool API, deletion protection is inactive by default. To use this feature in user pools that you create with the Amazon CLI or an Amazon SDK, set the DeletionProtection parameter to True.

You can activate or deactivate deletion protection status in the Deletion protection container in the User pool settings tab in the Amazon Cognito console.