Deleting your Amazon Lightsail distribution

Last updated: July 23, 2020

You can delete your Amazon Lightsail distribution at any time if you're no longer using it.

Delete a distribution

Complete the following procedure to delete a distribution.

1. Sign in to the Lightsail console.

2. On the Lightsail home page, choose the Networking tab.

3. Choose the name of the distribution you want to delete.

4. Choose the Delete tab on your distribution's management page.

5. Choose Delete distribution to delete your distribution.

6. Choose Yes, delete to confirm the deletion.

Additional information

Here are some articles to help you manage distributions in Lightsail:

• Content delivery network distributions in Amazon Lightsail

• Creating Amazon Lightsail distributions

• Understanding request and response behaviors of an Amazon Lightsail distribution

• Configuring your WordPress instance to work with your Amazon Lightsail distribution

• Testing your Amazon Lightsail distribution

• Changing the origin of your Amazon Lightsail distribution

• Changing the caching behavior of your Amazon Lightsail distribution

• Resetting the cache of your Amazon Lightsail distribution

• Changing the plan of your Amazon Lightsail distribution

• Enabling custom domains for your Amazon Lightsail distributions

• Pointing your domains to your Amazon Lightsail distributions

• Changing custom domains for your Amazon Lightsail distribution

• Disabling custom domains for your Amazon Lightsail distributions

• Viewing distribution metrics in Amazon Lightsail

• Deleting your Amazon Lightsail distribution

• SSL/TLS certificates in Amazon Lightsail

• Creating SSL/TLS certificates for your Amazon Lightsail distribution

• Validating SSL/TLS certificates for your Amazon Lightsail distribution

• Viewing SSL/TLS certificates for your Amazon Lightsail distribution

• Deleting SSL/TLS certificates for your Amazon Lightsail distribution