# Deleting member accounts from GuardDuty organization
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As a delegated GuardDuty administrator account, after you have disassociated a member account and you no longer want to keep that member account in the GuardDuty organization, you can delete that member account from your GuardDuty organization. This member account will no longer appear in your account inventory. However, if GuardDuty was not suspended in this member account, the configuration of GuardDuty and dedicated protection plans remains the same. This account will now become a standalone account and can [disable GuardDuty](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/guardduty/latest/ug/guardduty_suspend-disable.html) themselves. 

This step will not delete the member account from your Amazon organization.

Choose a preferred method to delete a member account from your GuardDuty organization.

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#### [ Console ]

1. Open the GuardDuty console at [https://console.amazonaws.cn/guardduty/](https://console.amazonaws.cn/guardduty/).

   To sign in, use the credentials of the delegated GuardDuty administrator account.

1. In the navigation pane, choose **Accounts**.

1. In the **Accounts** table, you can remove an account that has **Type** as **Via Organizations** and **Status** as **Removed (disassociated)**.

   Select one or more accounts with the same **Type** and **Status**.

1. From the **Actions** dropdown menu, choose **Delete account**.

1. Choose **Delete accounts** to confirm your selection. The selected account member will no longer appear in your Accounts table.

   Repeat the preceding steps in each additional Region where you want to delete this member account.

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#### [ API/CLI ]

1. To retrieve the account ID for the member account that you want to delete, use the [https://docs.amazonaws.cn/guardduty/latest/APIReference/API_ListMembers.html](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/guardduty/latest/APIReference/API_ListMembers.html) API. Include the `OnlyAssociated` parameter in your request. If you set this parameter's value to `false`, GuardDuty returns a `members` array that provides details about only those accounts that are currently disassociated GuardDuty members.

   Alternatively, you can use Amazon Command Line Interface (Amazon CLI) to run the following command:

   ```
   aws guardduty list-members --detector-id 12abc34d567e8fa901bc2d34EXAMPLE --only-associated="false" --region us-east-1
   ```

   Replace *12abc34d567e8fa901bc2d34EXAMPLE* with the delegated GuardDuty administrator account detector ID and *us-east-1* with the Region where you want to remove this account.

1. To delete one or more GuardDuty member accounts, run [https://docs.amazonaws.cn/guardduty/latest/APIReference/API_DeleteMembers.html](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/guardduty/latest/APIReference/API_DeleteMembers.html) to delete the member account from the GuardDuty organization.

   Alternatively, you can use Amazon CLI to run the following command:

   ```
   aws guardduty delete-members --detector-id 12abc34d567e8fa901bc2d34EXAMPLE --account-ids 111122223333 --region us-east-1
   ```

   Replace *12abc34d567e8fa901bc2d34EXAMPLE* with the delegated GuardDuty administrator account detector ID and *us-east-1* by the Region where you want to remove this account. If you have a list of account IDs that you want to remove, separate them by a space character.

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