Tutorial: Cleaning up your AWS resources - Amazon Cognito

Tutorial: Cleaning up your AWS resources

Important

Currently, you must configure Amazon Cognito identity pools in the original console, even if you have migrated to the new console for Amazon Cognito user pools. From the new console, choose Federated identities to navigate to the identity pools console.

To delete an identity pool

  1. Go to the Amazon Cognito console. If prompted, enter your AWS credentials.

  2. Choose Manage Identity Pools.

  3. Choose the name of the identity pool that you want to delete. The Dashboard page for your identity pool appears.

  4. In the top-right corner of the Dashboard page, choose Edit identity pool. The Edit identity pool page appears.

  5. Scroll down and choose Delete identity pool to expand it.

  6. Choose Delete identity pool.

  7. Choose Delete pool.

Original console

To delete a user pool

  1. Go to the Amazon Cognito console. If prompted, enter your AWS credentials.

  2. Choose Manage User Pools.

  3. Choose the user pool you created in the previous step.

  4. On the Domain name page under App integration, select Delete domain.

  5. Choose Delete domain when prompted to confirm.

  6. Go to the General Settings page.

  7. Select Delete pool in the upper right corner of the page.

  8. Enter delete and choose Delete pool when prompted to confirm.

New console

To delete a user pool

  1. Go to the Amazon Cognito console. If prompted, enter your AWS credentials.

  2. From the navigation pane, choose User Pools.

  3. If you have not created a domain for your user pool, select the radio button next to a user pool and select Delete. Enter the name of the user pool to confirm, and stop here.

  4. If you have created a domain for your user pool, select the user pool.

  5. Navigate to the App integration tab for your user pool.

  6. Next to Domain, choose Actions and select Delete Cognito domain or Delete custom domain.

  7. Enter the domain name to confirm deletion.

  8. Return to the User pools list and select the radio button next to your user pool. Select Delete and enter the name of the user pool to confirm.