AWS has seen fit to freeze/block/lock my IAM account that I created from root. They think there was suspicious activity when there was none and have ignored my repeated requests to unblock my account. I have several weeks' worth of lab work created and performed under this account. I could delete this account from root and create another one. But my fear is that all of my work will be gone and I'll have to re-do several weeks' worth of SAA labs.
I read a link that says that if I delete the account, I'll lose the following:
The user
Any user group memberships—that is, the user is removed from any IAM user groups that the user was a member of
Any password associated with the user
Any access keys belonging to the user
All inline policies embedded in the user (policies that are applied to a user via user group permissions are not affected)
Is this all that I'll lose? My load balancers, instances, roles, policies, inbound/outbound rules will still be there and, if I create a new IAM user, I'll be able to access and use these items? I'd hate to lose access to these items and have to re-create weeks' worth of work just because some link didn't tell me the whole story.
Thank you, I will go ahead and delete that account. Still, I wish AWS would leave my accounts alone and stop making unilateral decisions regarding my account and at least ask me what happened.
This is for the broader audience so that when people search, they'll see this.
With all due respect, what you told me was completely, utterly, 100% incorrect. You went off what the links say and what the test question likely says. I learned a long time ago that vendors' links say one thing, and the real app or device might and more often than not does behave in an entirely different way. I deleted the user account that AWS was blocking and created a new IAM user. Every single one of my security groups, LB's, instances, target groups, you name it, are 100% gone daddy gone. I am now faced with the idea that the last 6 weeks' worth of lab work has been completely erased. I have to now start all of my cert prep for SAA all over again. Please do not dispense of advice just because you read a link. Only dispense of advice when you are 100% sure because you tried it yourself in the wild. I now have to start all over again. I know you meant to help. But you clearly just read the link and never actually tried it. And I was pretty clear on the type of advice I was looking for.
To all others doing cert prep - The way this whole thing started with my IAM account being frozen is one or the other or both of the following:
Do NOT use that third party vendor. If have problems, you are strictly, 100% on your own to figure it out.