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Deletes the specified managed policy.
Before you can delete a managed policy, you must first detach the policy from all users, groups, and roles that it is attached to. In addition, you must delete all the policy's versions. The following steps describe the process for deleting a managed policy:
For information about managed policies, see Managed policies and inline policies in the IAM User Guide .
See also: AWS API Documentation
See 'aws help' for descriptions of global parameters.
delete-policy
--policy-arn <value>
[--cli-input-json <value>]
[--generate-cli-skeleton <value>]
--policy-arn
(string)
The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the IAM policy you want to delete.
For more information about ARNs, see Amazon Resource Names (ARNs) in the Amazon Web Services General Reference .
--cli-input-json
(string)
Performs service operation based on the JSON string provided. The JSON string follows the format provided by --generate-cli-skeleton
. If other arguments are provided on the command line, the CLI values will override the JSON-provided values. It is not possible to pass arbitrary binary values using a JSON-provided value as the string will be taken literally.
--generate-cli-skeleton
(string)
Prints a JSON skeleton to standard output without sending an API request. If provided with no value or the value input
, prints a sample input JSON that can be used as an argument for --cli-input-json
. If provided with the value output
, it validates the command inputs and returns a sample output JSON for that command.
See 'aws help' for descriptions of global parameters.
To delete an IAM policy
This example deletes the policy whose ARN is arn:aws:iam::123456789012:policy/MySamplePolicy
:
aws iam delete-policy --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::123456789012:policy/MySamplePolicy
For more information, see Overview of IAM Policies in the Using IAM guide.
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