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There's no way to delete the root user. It isn't a separate user but rather an inherent property of the AWS account.
If you have closed your account, it'll be kept suspended for 90 days before being permanently deleted. If that is the case, you could simply use a different email address to create a new AWS account, if that's what you want to do.
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IN the IAM there is just my username with Admin rights but I cannot close the accounts because I do not have (lost the credentials). If i can retrive somehow the root account because at this stage I don 't have any visibility on the costs .. so that is why I wanted to delete the account and recreate one, but to do so I need the root account so I am in a loop.
Thank you so much for your answer.
Marco
answered 2 years ago
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If you know the email address you used to create the AWS account, you should be able to recover its password from the logon page. If you don't know the email address but can log on as an IAM user with administrative access, you could either open a support case, or create an AWS Organizations organisation in your account. That will make your account the management account of an otherwise empty organisation, and you'll see the root email address in the Organizations console.
For clarity, only the root can close a standalone account, so there's no option for doing that as an IAM user.