Decommission your landing zone

The process of cleaning up all of a landing zones resources is referred to as decommissioning a landing zone.

Important

We strongly recommend that you perform this decommissioning process only if you intend to stop using your landing zone. It is not possible to re-create your existing landing zone after you've decommissioned it.

For more details about decommissioning a landing zone, including important information about how AWS Control Tower handles your data and existing AWS Organizations, review Walkthrough: Decommission an AWS Control Tower Landing Zone.

To decommission a landing zone, call DeleteLandingZone API. This API returns an OperationIdentifier, which you can then use when calling the GetLandingZoneOperation API to check the delete operation's status.

 aws controltower delete-landing-zone --landing-zone-identifier "arn:aws:controltower:us-west-2:123456789012:landingzone/1A2B3C4D5E6F7G8H"

Output:

{
   "operationIdentifier": "55XXXXXX-e2XX-41XX-a7XX-446XXXXXXXXX"
}