Account details in Amazon Quick Suite - Amazon Quick Suite
Deleting an Amazon Quick Suite account
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Account details in Amazon Quick Suite

Use this section to change the account-wide settings in Amazon Quick Suite. To open your account settings, choose the profile icon, and then select Manage Quick Suite. Then, click on Account settings.

Deleting your Amazon Quick Suite subscription and closing your account

Warning

Deleting your Amazon Quick Suite subscription permanently destroys all organizational data across all Amazon regions and cannot be reversed.

This action will immediately and permanently delete:

  • Every dashboard, analysis, and dataset across your entire organization in all regions

  • All user accounts and their associated work

  • Custom data sources and connections

  • All sharing permissions and folder structures

  • Historical usage data and audit logs

  • All customizations, themes, and organizational settings

Account deletion from any region affects your entire global Quick Suite deployment. Even if you have Quick Suite resources in multiple Amazon regions, this single action deletes everything worldwide.

There is no recovery option. Once deleted, this data cannot be restored by Amazon or recovered through any means.

Before proceeding: Export critical dashboards, back up datasets, and ensure all stakeholders are informed of this permanent action.

The act of deleting your Amazon Quick Suite subscription is immediate and final. Deletion removes every Amazon Quick Suite asset on the Amazon Web Services account you are using. It doesn't delete namespaces that you added. (The Default namespace is deleted automatically.) You can locate and delete namesspaces by using the API operations ListNamespaces and DeleteNamespace.

You can terminate your Amazon Quick Suite account from the Manage Quick Suite menu or by using the API. To prevent someone from deleting a Amazon Quick Suite user account accidentally or maliciously, Amazon Quick Suite uses permissions, a switch for the Account termination protection setting, and a required confirmation word.

After your account is deleted, you can create a new Amazon Quick Suite account. The process doesn't take more than 15 minutes. The settings for edition and user authorization method on the new account can be the same or different.

Before you can delete your Amazon Quick Suite account, make sure of the following:

  • You're signed in using the IAM account or Amazon root account that was used to create your Amazon Quick Suite account.

  • You understand that your Amazon Web Services account is not deleted when you terminate your Amazon Quick Suite account. To instead close your Amazon Web Services account, see Closing an Amazon Web Services account.

  • Terminating your account deletes all users, all uploaded data, and assets (for example, datasets, data sources, queries, dashboards, analyses, settings, and so on).

Permissions and access to account termination

You need the following special permissions to terminate a Amazon Quick Suite account. Without these permissions, you won't be able to terminate a Amazon Quick Suite user account. Contact your account administrator for help.

  • You're a Amazon Quick Suite administrator and have an Admin role in Amazon Quick Suite.

  • You need permissions to run the following (except if you're the root admin user (IAM ) who added Amazon Quick Suite)

    • quicksight:Unsubscribe

    • ds:UnauthorizeApplication

    • ds:DeleteDirectory

    • ds:DescribeDirectories

    • quicksight:UpdateAccountSettings

  • To remove custom namespaces, you need permission to run the following API operations:

    • quicksight:ListNamespaces

    • quicksight:DeleteNamespace

    You don't need extra permissions to delete the default namespace.

Warning

Terminating your account is an instant action that cannot be undone by you or by Amazon.

Deleting your account

The following sections outlines the different ways you can terminate your Amazon Quick Suite instance.

To terminate your Amazon Quick Suite account without the Amazon Quick Suite UI

  • Sign in to Amazon where you want to remove Amazon Quick Suite.

To terminate your account by using the Amazon Quick Suite UI

  1. Choose your profile on the application bar, and then choose Manage Quick Suite.

  2. Use one of the following methods to open the Account termination screen.

    • Use this direct link to the screen.

    • Choose Account settings, Manage.

  3. On the Account termination page, confirm that you are viewing the correct Amazon Quick Suite account by checking the name listed for account name.

  4. Toggle off Account termination protection is on. Doing this enables the Delete account section.

  5. For Type "confirm" to delete this account, enter the word confirmation word shown on your screen.