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[ aws . kms ]

delete-alias

Description

Deletes the specified alias.

Note

Adding, deleting, or updating an alias can allow or deny permission to the KMS key. For details, see ABAC in KMS in the Key Management Service Developer Guide .

Because an alias is not a property of a KMS key, you can delete and change the aliases of a KMS key without affecting the KMS key. Also, aliases do not appear in the response from the DescribeKey operation. To get the aliases of all KMS keys, use the ListAliases operation.

Each KMS key can have multiple aliases. To change the alias of a KMS key, use DeleteAlias to delete the current alias and CreateAlias to create a new alias. To associate an existing alias with a different KMS key, call UpdateAlias .

Cross-account use : No. You cannot perform this operation on an alias in a different Amazon Web Services account.

Required permissions

• kms:DeleteAlias on the alias (IAM policy).
• kms:DeleteAlias on the KMS key (key policy).

For details, see Controlling access to aliases in the Key Management Service Developer Guide .

Related operations:

• CreateAlias
• ListAliases
• UpdateAlias

See also: AWS API Documentation

See 'aws help' for descriptions of global parameters.

Synopsis

  delete-alias
--alias-name <value>
[--cli-input-json <value>]
[--generate-cli-skeleton <value>]

Options

--alias-name (string)

The alias to be deleted. The alias name must begin with alias/ followed by the alias name, such as alias/ExampleAlias .

--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.

Examples

To delete an AWS KMS alias

The following delete-alias example deletes the alias alias/example-alias.

• The --alias-name parameter specifies the alias to delete. The alias name must begin with alias/.

  aws kms delete-alias \
      --alias-name alias/example-alias
  

This command produces no output. To find the alias, use the list-aliases command.

For more information, see Working with Aliases in the AWS Key Management Service Developer Guide.

Output

None