RemoveRoleFromInstanceProfile - AWS Identity and Access Management

RemoveRoleFromInstanceProfile

Removes the specified IAM role from the specified Amazon EC2 instance profile.

Important

Make sure that 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 might break any applications running on the instance.

For more information about roles, see IAM roles in the IAM User Guide. For more information about instance profiles, see Using instance profiles in the IAM User Guide.

Request Parameters

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

InstanceProfileName

The name of the instance profile to update.

This parameter allows (through its regex pattern) a string of characters consisting of upper and lowercase alphanumeric characters with no spaces. You can also include any of the following characters: _+=,.@-

Type: String

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

Pattern: [\w+=,.@-]+

Required: Yes

RoleName

The name of the role to remove.

This parameter allows (through its regex pattern) a string of characters consisting of upper and lowercase alphanumeric characters with no spaces. You can also include any of the following characters: _+=,.@-

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 64.

Pattern: [\w+=,.@-]+

Required: Yes

Errors

For information about the errors that are common to all actions, see Common Errors.

LimitExceeded

The request was rejected because it attempted to create resources beyond the current AWS account limits. The error message describes the limit exceeded.

HTTP Status Code: 409

NoSuchEntity

The request was rejected because it referenced a resource entity that does not exist. The error message describes the resource.

HTTP Status Code: 404

ServiceFailure

The request processing has failed because of an unknown error, exception or failure.

HTTP Status Code: 500

UnmodifiableEntity

The request was rejected because service-linked roles are protected AWS resources. Only the service that depends on the service-linked role can modify or delete the role on your behalf. The error message includes the name of the service that depends on this service-linked role. You must request the change through that service.

HTTP Status Code: 400

Examples

Example

This example illustrates one usage of RemoveRoleFromInstanceProfile.

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>

See Also

For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following: