Delete users in IAM Identity Center - AWS IAM Identity Center
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Delete users in IAM Identity Center

When you delete a user in your IAM Identity Center directory, it removes their access to AWS accounts and applications. After you delete a user, you cannot undo this action. Use the following procedure to delete a user in your Identity Center directory.

Note

When you disable user access or delete a user in IAM Identity Center, that user will immediately be prevented from signing in to the AWS access portal and will not be able to create new sign in sessions. For more information, see Understanding authentication sessions in IAM Identity Center.

Important

The instructions on this page apply to AWS IAM Identity Center. They do not apply to AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM). IAM Identity Center users, groups, and user credentials are different from IAM users, groups, and IAM user credentials. If you are looking for instructions on deleting users in IAM, see Deleting an IAM user in the AWS Identity and Access Management User Guide.

Console
To delete a user

  1. Open the IAM Identity Center console.

  2. Choose Users.

  3. There are two ways you can delete a user:

    • On the Users page, you can select multiple users for deletion. Select the username that you want to delete and choose Delete users.

    • Choose the username that you want to delete. On the user details page, choose Delete user.

  4. If you delete multiple users at once, confirm your intent by typing Delete in the Delete user dialog box.

  5. Choose Delete user. If you selected multiple users for deletion, choose Delete # users.

AWS CLI
To delete a user

The following delete-user command deletes a user from your Identity Center directory.

aws identitystore delete-user \
    --identity-store-id d-1234567890 \
    --user-id a1b2c3d4-5678-90ab-cdef-EXAMPLE11111