diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index f6e5c523..bc13d2a4 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ A _Good Enough_ offline emulator for [Amazon Cognito](https://aws.amazon.com/cog
 | DeleteResourceServer             | ❌                   |
 | DeleteUser                       | ✅²                  |
 | DeleteUserAttributes             | ✅                   |
-| DeleteUserPool                   | ❌                   |
+| DeleteUserPool                   | ✅²                  |
 | DeleteUserPoolClient             | ✅²                  |
 | DeleteUserPoolDomain             | ❌                   |
 | DescribeIdentityProvider         | ❌                   |
diff --git a/integration-tests/aws-sdk/deleteUserPool.test.ts b/integration-tests/aws-sdk/deleteUserPool.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..7f13bf1c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/integration-tests/aws-sdk/deleteUserPool.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+import { withCognitoSdk } from "./setup";
+
+describe(
+  "CognitoIdentityServiceProvider.deleteUserPool",
+  withCognitoSdk((Cognito) => {
+    it("deletes a group", async () => {
+      const client = Cognito();
+
+      // create the user pool
+      const up = await client
+        .createUserPool({
+          PoolName: "newPool",
+        })
+        .promise();
+
+      const listResponse = await client
+        .listUserPools({
+          MaxResults: 1,
+        })
+        .promise();
+
+      expect(listResponse.UserPools).toEqual([
+        expect.objectContaining({
+          Id: up.UserPool?.Id,
+        }),
+      ]);
+
+      await client
+        .deleteUserPool({
+          UserPoolId: up.UserPool?.Id!,
+        })
+        .promise();
+
+      const listResponseAfter = await client
+        .listUserPools({ MaxResults: 1 })
+        .promise();
+
+      expect(listResponseAfter.UserPools).toHaveLength(0);
+    });
+  })
+);
diff --git a/integration-tests/aws-sdk/deleteUserPoolClient.test.ts b/integration-tests/aws-sdk/deleteUserPoolClient.test.ts
index 68308737..a51633e2 100644
--- a/integration-tests/aws-sdk/deleteUserPoolClient.test.ts
+++ b/integration-tests/aws-sdk/deleteUserPoolClient.test.ts
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ import { withCognitoSdk } from "./setup";
 describe(
   "CognitoIdentityServiceProvider.deleteUserPoolClient",
   withCognitoSdk((Cognito) => {
-    it("deletes a group", async () => {
+    it("deletes a user pool client", async () => {
       const client = Cognito();
 
       // create the user pool client
diff --git a/integration-tests/cognitoService.test.ts b/integration-tests/cognitoService.test.ts
index 93162704..4e7afd1f 100644
--- a/integration-tests/cognitoService.test.ts
+++ b/integration-tests/cognitoService.test.ts
@@ -75,4 +75,22 @@ describe("Cognito Service", () => {
       { ...USER_POOL_AWS_DEFAULTS, Id: "test-pool-3" },
     ]);
   });
+
+  it("deletes user pools", async () => {
+    const cognitoService = await factory.create(TestContext, {});
+
+    const up1 = await cognitoService.getUserPool(TestContext, "test-pool-1");
+    const up2 = await cognitoService.getUserPool(TestContext, "test-pool-2");
+
+    expect(fs.existsSync(`${dataDirectory}/test-pool-1.json`)).toBe(true);
+    expect(fs.existsSync(`${dataDirectory}/test-pool-2.json`)).toBe(true);
+
+    await cognitoService.deleteUserPool(TestContext, up1.config);
+
+    expect(fs.existsSync(`${dataDirectory}/test-pool-1.json`)).not.toBe(true);
+
+    await cognitoService.deleteUserPool(TestContext, up2.config);
+
+    expect(fs.existsSync(`${dataDirectory}/test-pool-2.json`)).not.toBe(true);
+  });
 });
diff --git a/src/__tests__/mockCognitoService.ts b/src/__tests__/mockCognitoService.ts
index 8be95fa2..0a1dd2ed 100644
--- a/src/__tests__/mockCognitoService.ts
+++ b/src/__tests__/mockCognitoService.ts
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ export const newMockCognitoService = (
   userPoolClient: UserPoolService = newMockUserPoolService()
 ): jest.Mocked<CognitoService> => ({
   createUserPool: jest.fn(),
+  deleteUserPool: jest.fn(),
   getAppClient: jest.fn(),
   getUserPool: jest.fn().mockResolvedValue(userPoolClient),
   getUserPoolForClientId: jest.fn().mockResolvedValue(userPoolClient),
diff --git a/src/services/cognitoService.ts b/src/services/cognitoService.ts
index e9fa8804..d8713036 100644
--- a/src/services/cognitoService.ts
+++ b/src/services/cognitoService.ts
@@ -12,10 +12,7 @@ import {
   UserPoolService,
   UserPoolServiceFactory,
 } from "./userPoolService";
-import fs from "fs";
-import { promisify } from "util";
-
-const readdir = promisify(fs.readdir);
+import fs from "fs/promises";
 
 const CLIENTS_DATABASE_NAME = "clients";
 
@@ -265,6 +262,7 @@ export const USER_POOL_AWS_DEFAULTS: UserPoolDefaults = {
 
 export interface CognitoService {
   createUserPool(ctx: Context, userPool: UserPool): Promise<UserPool>;
+  deleteUserPool(ctx: Context, userPool: UserPool): Promise<void>;
   getAppClient(ctx: Context, clientId: string): Promise<AppClient | null>;
   getUserPool(ctx: Context, userPoolId: string): Promise<UserPoolService>;
   getUserPoolForClientId(
@@ -325,6 +323,14 @@ export class CognitoServiceImpl implements CognitoService {
     return service.config;
   }
 
+  public async deleteUserPool(ctx: Context, userPool: UserPool): Promise<void> {
+    ctx.logger.debug(
+      { userPoolId: userPool.Id },
+      "CognitoServiceImpl.deleteUserPool"
+    );
+    await fs.rm(path.join(this.dataDirectory, `${userPool.Id}.json`));
+  }
+
   public async getUserPool(
     ctx: Context,
     userPoolId: string
@@ -378,7 +384,9 @@ export class CognitoServiceImpl implements CognitoService {
 
   public async listUserPools(ctx: Context): Promise<readonly UserPool[]> {
     ctx.logger.debug("CognitoServiceImpl.listUserPools");
-    const entries = await readdir(this.dataDirectory, { withFileTypes: true });
+    const entries = await fs.readdir(this.dataDirectory, {
+      withFileTypes: true,
+    });
 
     return Promise.all(
       entries
diff --git a/src/targets/deleteUserPool.test.ts b/src/targets/deleteUserPool.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..059a74ec
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/targets/deleteUserPool.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+import { newMockCognitoService } from "../__tests__/mockCognitoService";
+import { newMockUserPoolService } from "../__tests__/mockUserPoolService";
+import { TestContext } from "../__tests__/testContext";
+import * as TDB from "../__tests__/testDataBuilder";
+import { CognitoService } from "../services";
+import { DeleteUserPool, DeleteUserPoolTarget } from "./deleteUserPool";
+
+describe("DeleteUserPool target", () => {
+  let deleteUserPool: DeleteUserPoolTarget;
+  let mockCognitoService: jest.Mocked<CognitoService>;
+
+  beforeEach(() => {
+    mockCognitoService = newMockCognitoService(newMockUserPoolService());
+
+    deleteUserPool = DeleteUserPool({
+      cognito: mockCognitoService,
+    });
+  });
+
+  it("deletes a user pool client", async () => {
+    const userPool = TDB.userPool();
+
+    mockCognitoService.getUserPool.mockResolvedValue(
+      newMockUserPoolService(userPool)
+    );
+
+    await deleteUserPool(TestContext, {
+      UserPoolId: "test",
+    });
+
+    expect(mockCognitoService.deleteUserPool).toHaveBeenCalledWith(
+      TestContext,
+      userPool
+    );
+  });
+
+  it.todo("throws if the user pool doesn't exist");
+});
diff --git a/src/targets/deleteUserPool.ts b/src/targets/deleteUserPool.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..f964fc83
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/targets/deleteUserPool.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+import { DeleteUserPoolRequest } from "aws-sdk/clients/cognitoidentityserviceprovider";
+import { ResourceNotFoundError } from "../errors";
+import { Services } from "../services";
+import { Target } from "./Target";
+
+export type DeleteUserPoolTarget = Target<DeleteUserPoolRequest, {}>;
+
+type DeleteUserPoolServices = Pick<Services, "cognito">;
+
+export const DeleteUserPool =
+  ({ cognito }: DeleteUserPoolServices): DeleteUserPoolTarget =>
+  async (ctx, req) => {
+    // TODO: from the docs "Calling this action requires developer credentials.", can we enforce this?
+    const userPool = await cognito.getUserPool(ctx, req.UserPoolId);
+    if (!userPool) {
+      throw new ResourceNotFoundError();
+    }
+
+    await cognito.deleteUserPool(ctx, userPool.config);
+
+    return {};
+  };
diff --git a/src/targets/targets.ts b/src/targets/targets.ts
index 638734bc..896dd78f 100644
--- a/src/targets/targets.ts
+++ b/src/targets/targets.ts
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ import { CreateUserPoolClient } from "./createUserPoolClient";
 import { DeleteGroup } from "./deleteGroup";
 import { DeleteUser } from "./deleteUser";
 import { DeleteUserAttributes } from "./deleteUserAttributes";
+import { DeleteUserPool } from "./deleteUserPool";
 import { DeleteUserPoolClient } from "./deleteUserPoolClient";
 import { DescribeUserPoolClient } from "./describeUserPoolClient";
 import { ForgotPassword } from "./forgotPassword";
@@ -59,6 +60,7 @@ export const Targets = {
   DeleteGroup,
   DeleteUser,
   DeleteUserAttributes,
+  DeleteUserPool,
   DeleteUserPoolClient,
   DescribeUserPoolClient,
   ForgotPassword,