# Stopping Amazon DCV sessions
Stopping Sessions

A console session can only be stopped by the administrator on Windows Amazon DCV servers, and the root user on Linux and macOS Amazon DCV servers. A virtual session on a Linux Amazon DCV server can only be stopped by the root user or the Amazon DCV user who created it. 

**Note**  
Stopping a session closes all of the applications that are running in the session.

To stop a console or virtual session on a Windows, Linux, or macOS Amazon DCV server, use the `dcv close-session` command and specify the unique session ID.

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## Syntax
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## Example
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## Syntax


```
dcv close-session session-id
```

## Example


For example, the following command stops a session with the unique ID of `my-session`.

```
dcv close-session my-session
```