Deleting member accounts in Security Hub

Note

We recommend using AWS Organizations instead of Security Hub invitations to manage your member accounts. For information, see Managing Security Hub administrator and member accounts with Organizations.

As an AWS Security Hub administrator account, you can delete member accounts that were added by invitation. Before you can delete an enabled account, you must disassociate it.

When you delete a member account, it is completely removed from the list. To restore the account's membership, you must add and invite it again as if it were a completely new member account.

You can't delete accounts that belong to an organization and that are managed using the integration with AWS Organizations.

Choose your preferred method, and follow the steps to delete manually-invited member accounts.

Security Hub console

To delete a manually-invited member account

1. Open the AWS Security Hub console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/securityhub/.

   Sign in using the administrator account.

2. In the navigation pane, choose Settings, and then choose Configuration.

3. Choose the Invitation accounts tab. Then, select the accounts to delete.

4. Choose Actions, and then choose Delete. This option is available only if you have disassociated the account. You must disassociate a member account before it can be deleted.

Security Hub API

To delete a manually-invited member account

Invoke the DeleteMembers API from the administrator account. You must provide the AWS account IDs of the member accounts that you want to delete. To retrieve the list of member accounts, invoke the ListMembers API.

AWS CLI

To delete a manually-invited member account

Run the delete-members command from the administrator account. You must provide the AWS account IDs of the member accounts that you want to delete. To retrieve the list of member accounts, run the list-members command.

aws securityhub delete-members --account-ids <memberAccountIDs>

Example

aws securityhub delete-members --account-ids "123456789111" "123456789222"