# Delete notification contacts in Lightsail
Delete notification contacts

Delete your email and mobile phone number notification contacts from Amazon Lightsail to stop receiving email and SMS text message notifications for your Lightsail resources. For more information about notifications, see [Notifications](amazon-lightsail-notifications.md).

You can also disable, or delete an alarm to stop receiving notifications for a specific alarm. For more information, see [Delete or disable metric alarms](amazon-lightsail-deleting-health-metric-alarms.md).

**Contents**
+ [Deleting notification contacts using the Lightsail console](#deleting-notification-contacts-console)
+ [Deleting notification contacts using the AWS CLI](#deleting-notification-contacts-cli)
+ [Next steps after deleting your notification contacts](#next-steps-deleting-notification-contacts)

## Deleting notification contacts using the Lightsail console


Complete the following steps to delete notification contacts using the Lightsail console.

1. Sign in to the [Lightsail console](https://lightsail.aws.amazon.com/).

1. On the Lightsail home page, choose your user or role on the top navigation menu.

1. Choose **Account** in the drop-down menu.  
![\[Account menu in the Lightsail console.\]](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/lightsail/latest/userguide/images/amazon-lightsail-console-account-menu.png)

1. Choose the delete icon next to the email address or mobile phone number that you want to delete in the **Notification contacts** section on the **Profile & contacts** tab.

1. Choose **Yes** to confirm that you want to delete the notification contact.

## Deleting notification contacts using the AWS CLI


Complete the following steps to delete notification contacts for Lightsail using the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI).

1. Open a Terminal or Command Prompt window.

   If you haven't already, [install the AWS CLI and configure it to work with Lightsail](lightsail-how-to-set-up-and-configure-aws-cli.md).

1. Enter the following command to delete a notification contact:

   ```
   aws lightsail delete-contact-method --region Region --notificationProtocol Protocol
   ```

   In the command, replace:
   + *Region* with the AWS Region in which the notification contact should be deleted.
   + *Protocol* with the notification protocol for the contact that you want to delete, such as Email or SMS.

   Example:

   ```
   aws lightsail delete-contact-method --region us-west-2 --notificationProtocol SMS
   ```

   When you press enter, you will see an operation response with details about your request.

## Next steps after deleting your notification contacts


There are a couple of additional tasks that you can perform after deleting your notification contacts:
+ Deleting notification contacts stops email and SMS text messaging notifications, but it does not stop notification banners from displaying in the Lightsail console. To stop notification banners, and to also stop email and SMS text messaging notifications, disable or delete the alarms that are causing them. For more information, see [Delete or disable metric alarms](amazon-lightsail-deleting-health-metric-alarms.md).
+ Add your email address and mobile phone number in Lightsail as notification contacts to start receiving email and SMS text messaging notifications again. For more information, see [Add notification contacts](amazon-lightsail-adding-editing-notification-contacts.md).