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Deleting an Amazon Quick account

Account details in Amazon Quick

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

Deleting your Amazon Quick subscription and closing your account

Warning

Deleting your Amazon Quick subscription permanently destroys all organizational data across all AWS 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 deployment. Even if you have Quick resources in multiple AWS regions, this single action deletes everything worldwide.

There is no recovery option. Once deleted, this data cannot be restored by AWS 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 subscription is immediate and final. Deletion removes every Amazon Quick asset on the AWS account you are using. It doesn't delete namespaces that you added. (The Default namespace is deleted automatically.) You can locate and delete namespaces by using the API operations ListNamespaces and DeleteNamespace.

You can terminate your Amazon Quick account from the Manage Quick menu or by using the API. To prevent someone from deleting a Amazon Quick user account accidentally or maliciously, Amazon Quick 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 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 account, make sure of the following:

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

  • You understand that your AWS account is not deleted when you terminate your Amazon Quick account. To instead close your AWS account, see Closing an AWS 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 account. Without these permissions, you won't be able to terminate a Amazon Quick user account. Contact your account administrator for help.

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

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

    • 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 AWS.

Deleting your account

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

To terminate your Amazon Quick account without the Amazon Quick UI

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

To terminate your account by using the Amazon Quick UI

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

  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 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.