Request Syntax Request Parameters Response Elements Errors Examples See Also

RemovePermission

Revokes any permissions in the queue policy that matches the specified Label parameter.

Note

Only the owner of a queue can remove permissions from it.
Cross-account permissions don't apply to this action. For more information, see Grant cross-account permissions to a role and a username in the Amazon SQS Developer Guide.
To remove the ability to change queue permissions, you must deny permission to the AddPermission, RemovePermission, and SetQueueAttributes actions in your IAM policy.

Request Syntax


{
   "Label": "string",
   "QueueUrl": "string"
}

Request Parameters

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

The request accepts the following data in JSON format.

Label

The identification of the permission to remove. This is the label added using the AddPermission action.

Type: String

Required: Yes

QueueUrl

The URL of the Amazon SQS queue from which permissions are removed.

Queue URLs and names are case-sensitive.

Type: String

Required: Yes

Response Elements

If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 200 response with an empty HTTP body.

Errors

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

InvalidAddress

The specified ID is invalid.

HTTP Status Code: 400

InvalidSecurity

The request was not made over HTTPS or did not use SigV4 for signing.

HTTP Status Code: 400

QueueDoesNotExist

Ensure that the QueueUrl is correct and that the queue has not been deleted.

HTTP Status Code: 400

RequestThrottled

The request was denied due to request throttling.

Exceeds the permitted request rate for the queue or for the recipient of the request.
Ensure that the request rate is within the Amazon SQS limits for sending messages. For more information, see Amazon SQS quotas in the Amazon SQS Developer Guide.

HTTP Status Code: 400

UnsupportedOperation

Error code 400. Unsupported operation.

HTTP Status Code: 400

Examples

The following example query request removes the MyLabel permission from the queue named MyQueue. The structure of AUTHPARAMS depends on the signature of the API request. For more information, see Examples of Signed Signature Version 4 Requests in the AWS General Reference.

Example

Using AWS JSON protocol (Default)

Sample Request


POST / HTTP/1.1
Host: sqs.us-east-1.amazonaws.com
X-Amz-Target: AmazonSQS.RemovePermission
X-Amz-Date: <Date>
Content-Type: application/x-amz-json-1.0
Authorization: <AuthParams>
Content-Length: <PayloadSizeBytes>
Connection: Keep-Alive 
{
    "QueueUrl": "https://sqs.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/177715257436/MyQueue/",
    "Label": "MyLabel"
}

Sample Response


HTTP/1.1 200 OK
x-amzn-RequestId: <requestId>
Content-Length: 0
Date: <Date>
Content-Type: application/x-amz-json-1.0

Example

Using AWS query protocol

Sample Request


POST /177715257436/MyQueue/ HTTP/1.1
Host: sqs.us-east-1.amazonaws.com
X-Amz-Date: <Date>
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Authorization: <AuthParams>
Content-Length: <PayloadSizeBytes>
Connection: Keep-Alive
Action=RemovePermission&Label=MyLabel

Sample Response


HTTP/1.1 200 OK
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<RemovePermissionResponse xmlns="http://queue.amazonaws.com/doc/2012-11-05/">
    <ResponseMetadata>
        <RequestId>133cc8b8-21a1-5aba-b65a-94c8e50d917f</RequestId>
    </ResponseMetadata>
</RemovePermissionResponse>