How to delete an AWS Account?
_This message was extracted from a discussion that originally took place in Gruntwork Community Slack. Names and URLs have been removed where appropriate_ **From a customer** What's the canonical method for deleting an account from the multi-account architecture? Should I use the [cloud-nuke tool](https://github.com/gruntwork-io/cloud-nuke/)? Or is there another way?
**From a grunt** If you will no longer be using the account at all, the best way is to go through the AWS console to shutdown the account: https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/knowledge-center/close-aws-account/ Closing an account ensures you won’t be charged anymore. Note that there is no programmatic way to close an AWS account as they require signing in as the root account user.