# Leaving a collaboration
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As a collaboration member, you can leave a collaboration by deleting your membership. If you are the collaboration creator, you can only leave a collaboration by [deleting the collaboration](delete-collaboration.md).

**Note**  
When you delete your membership, you leave the collaboration and can't re-join it. If you are the [member paying for query compute costs](glossary.md#glossary-member-paying-for-query-compute) and you delete your membership, no more queries are allowed to run.

**To leave a collaboration**

1. Sign in to the AWS Management Console and open the [AWS Clean Rooms console](https://console.aws.amazon.com/cleanrooms/home).

1. In the left navigation pane, choose **Collaborations**.

1. For **With active membership**, choose the collaboration of which you are a member.

1. Choose **Actions**.

1. Choose **Delete membership**.

1. In the dialog box, confirm the decision to leave the collaboration by typing **confirm** in the text input field, and then choose **Empty and delete membership**.

   You see a message on the console indicating that the membership was deleted.

   The collaboration creator sees the **Member status** as **Left**.