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DeleteServiceSpecificCredential

Deletes the specified service-specific credential.

Request Parameters

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

ServiceSpecificCredentialId

The unique identifier of the service-specific credential. You can get this value by calling ListServiceSpecificCredentials.

This parameter allows (through its regex pattern) a string of characters that can consist of any upper or lowercased letter or digit.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 20. Maximum length of 128.

Pattern: [\w]+

Required: Yes

UserName

The name of the IAM user associated with the service-specific credential. If this value is not specified, then the operation assumes the user whose credentials are used to call the operation.

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: No

Errors

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

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

Example

The following example shows how to delete a service-specific credential associated with the user named Juan. If Juan's IAM access keys are used to make the call, then he does not need to include the UserName parameter.

Sample Request


https://iam.amazonaws.com/?Action=DeleteServiceSpecificCredential
&ServiceSpecificCredentialId=ACCA12345ABCDEXAMPLE
&UserName=Juan
&Version=2010-05-08
&AUTHPARAMS

Sample Response


<DeleteServiceSpecificCredentialResponse xmlns="https://iam.amazonaws.com/doc/2010-05-08/">
  <ResponseMetadata>
    <RequestId>EXAMPLE8-90ab-cdef-fedc-ba987EXAMPLE</RequestId>
  </ResponseMetadata>
</DeleteServiceSpecificCredentialResponse>