Delete an organization
Use the following procedure to delete an organization which reverts the former management account to a standalone Amazon Web Services account that is no longer managed by Amazon Organizations.
Minimum permissions
To delete an organization, you must sign in as a user or role in the management account, and you must have the following permissions:
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organizations:DeleteOrganization
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organizations:DescribeOrganization
– required only when using the Organizations console
To delete an organization
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Sign in to the Amazon Organizations console
. You must sign in as an IAM user, assume an IAM role, or sign in as the root user (not recommended) in the organization’s management account. -
Before you can delete the organization, you must first remove all accounts from the organization. For more information, see Removing a member account from your organization.
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Navigate to the Settings
page, and then choose Delete organization. -
In the Delete organization confirmation dialog box, enter the organization's ID which is displayed in the line above the text box. Then, choose Delete organization.
Important
This operation does not close the management account but does return it to a standalone Amazon Web Services account. To close the account, follow the steps at Closing a member account in your organization.
The following code examples show how to use DeleteOrganization
.