Remove a member account from your organization
When you sign in to the organization's management account, you can remove member accounts from the organization that you no longer need. To do this, complete the following procedure. This procedure applies only to member accounts. To remove the management account, you must delete the organization.
Note
If a member account is removed from an organization, that member account will no
longer be covered by organization agreements. Management account administrators
should communicate this to member accounts before removing member accounts from the
organization, so that member accounts can put new agreements in place if necessary.
A list of active organization agreements can be viewed in the AWS Artifact console on the
AWS Artifact Organization
Agreements
Minimum permissions
To remove one or more member accounts from your organization, you must sign in as a user or role in the management account with the following permissions:
-
organizations:DescribeOrganization
– required only when using the Organizations console -
organizations:RemoveAccountFromOrganization
If you choose to sign in as a user or role in a member account in step 5, then that user or role must have the following permissions:
-
organizations:DescribeOrganization
– required only when using the Organizations console. -
organizations:LeaveOrganization
– Note that the organization administrator can apply a policy to your account that removes this permission, preventing you from removing your account from the organization. -
If you sign in as an IAM user and the account is missing payment information, the user must have either
aws-portal:ModifyBilling
andaws-portal:ModifyPaymentMethods
permissions (if the account has not yet migrated to fine-grained permissions) ORpayments:CreatePaymentInstrument
andpayments:UpdatePaymentPreferences
permissions (if the account has migrated to fine-grained permissions). Also, the member account must have IAM user access to billing enabled. If this isn't already enabled, see Activating Access to the Billing and Cost Management Console in the AWS Billing User Guide.