How to Delete Your Amazon Account

Amazon closes accounts only after a customer service request. You lose order history, Kindle library, Prime, AWS, and digital purchases.

What Amazon keeps after deletion

  • Order records required for tax/legal reasons
  • Reviews you wrote (may be anonymized but not deleted)

Steps to delete your Amazon account

  1. Cancel Prime and subscriptions. Stop Prime, Audible, Kindle Unlimited, and any Subscribe & Save items first.
  2. Use up gift card balance. Closing the account forfeits any remaining balance.
  3. Open Help → Contact Us. Choose 'Prime or something else' → 'Login and security' → 'Close my account'.
  4. Confirm the email Amazon sends. They send a confirmation link — clicking it starts the closure.

Gotchas to watch for

  • AWS accounts must be closed separately via the AWS console.
  • Kindle books and Audible audiobooks become permanently inaccessible.

What deleting your Amazon account doesn't fix

Closing the account stops the flow of new data. It does not retrieve what has already left. Anything Amazon shared with advertising or analytics partners before you deleted stays with those partners, and anything that reached a data broker stays in the broker's database.

That is why people who delete a dozen accounts still find their home address on people-search sites afterwards. Those sites did not get your address from Amazon — they compiled it from public records, marketing lists and each other. Account deletion and broker removal are separate jobs, and doing one does not do the other.

Both are free to do yourself. The opt-out guides on this site cover 45+ brokers step by step, and the deletion steps above cost nothing but time.

Frequently asked questions

How long does it take to delete a Amazon account?

10 min + 5-15 day wait. Difficulty: medium. The full step-by-step process is on this page, and the official deletion page is at https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/contact-us.

What data does Amazon keep after you delete your account?

Deletion is rarely total. Amazon retains: Order records required for tax/legal reasons; Reviews you wrote (may be anonymized but not deleted). That is normal across the industry — most retention is for legal, security or fraud-prevention reasons — but it is worth knowing that "delete" does not mean every trace is gone.

Can you recover a deleted Amazon account?

Assume not. Some services offer a grace period before deletion finalises, and where Amazon does, it is noted in the steps above. Once that window closes the account is gone. Download your data before you start — every major service offers an export, and it takes minutes.

Is deleting my Amazon account enough to protect my privacy?

No, and this is the part most guides skip. Deleting the account stops Amazon from collecting more, but it does not claw back what was already shared with advertisers, analytics partners or data brokers. If your name, address and phone are published on people-search sites, that stays true after the account is gone — those listings have to be removed separately, which you can do yourself for free.

Rather not do this manually?

Every opt-out on this site is free to do yourself. The catch is that brokers re-list you within months, so it is a recurring job rather than a one-off. These services handle the repetition for you:

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