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DeleteRole
Description
Deletes the specified role. The role must not have any policies attached. For more information about roles, go to Working with Roles.
Important
Make sure you do not have any Amazon EC2 instances running with the role you are about to delete. Deleting a role or instance profile that is associated with a running instance will break any applications running on the instance.
Request Parameters
For information about the common parameters that all actions use, see Common Parameters.
- RoleName
Name of the role to delete.
Type: String
Length constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 64.
Required: Yes
Errors
For information about the errors that are common to all actions, see Common Errors.
- DeleteConflict
The request was rejected because it attempted to delete a resource that has attached subordinate entities. The error message describes these entities.
HTTP Status Code: 409
- NoSuchEntity
The request was rejected because it referenced an entity that does not exist. The error message describes the entity.
HTTP Status Code: 404
Examples
Sample Request
https://iam.amazonaws.com/
?Action=DeleteRole
&RoleName=S3Access
&Version=2010-05-08
&AUTHPARAMS
Sample Response
<DeleteRoleResponse xmlns="https://iam.amazonaws.com/doc/2010-05-08/">
<ResponseMetadata>
<RequestId>913e3f37-99ed-11e1-a4c3-270EXAMPLE04</RequestId>
</ResponseMetadata>
</DeleteRoleResponse>
