AWS Identity and Access Management
API Reference (API Version 2010-05-08)
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RemoveRoleFromInstanceProfile

Description

Removes the specified role from the specified instance profile.

Important

Make sure you do not have any Amazon EC2 instances running with the role you are about to remove from the instance profile. Removing a role from an instance profile that is associated with a running instance will break any applications running on the instance.

For more information about roles, go to Working with Roles. For more information about instance profiles, go to About Instance Profiles.

Request Parameters

For information about the common parameters that all actions use, see Common Parameters.

InstanceProfileName

Name of the instance profile to update.

Type: String

Length constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 128.

Required: Yes

RoleName

Name of the role to remove.

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.

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=RemoveRoleFromInstanceProfile
&InstanceProfileName=Webserver
&RoleName=S3Access
&Version=2010-05-08
&AUTHPARAMS
      

Sample Response

<RemoveRoleFromInstanceProfileResponse xmlns="https://iam.amazonaws.com/doc/2010-05-08/">
  <ResponseMetadata>
    <RequestId>29f47818-99f5-11e1-a4c3-27EXAMPLE804</RequestId>
  </ResponseMetadata>
</RemoveRoleFromInstanceProfileResponse>