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Use DeleteGroupPolicy with a CLI - AWS SDK Code Examples

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There are more AWS SDK examples available in the AWS Doc SDK Examples GitHub repo.

Use DeleteGroupPolicy with a CLI

The following code examples show how to use DeleteGroupPolicy.

CLI
AWS CLI

To delete a policy from an IAM group

The following delete-group-policy command deletes the policy named ExamplePolicy from the group named Admins.

aws iam delete-group-policy \ --group-name Admins \ --policy-name ExamplePolicy

This command produces no output.

To see the policies attached to a group, use the list-group-policies command.

For more information, see Managing IAM policies in the AWS IAM User Guide.

PowerShell
Tools for PowerShell

Example 1: This example removes the inline policy named TesterPolicy from the IAM group Testers. The users in that group immediately lose the permissions defined in that policy.

Remove-IAMGroupPolicy -GroupName Testers -PolicyName TestPolicy
  • For API details, see DeleteGroupPolicy in AWS Tools for PowerShell Cmdlet Reference.

AWS CLI

To delete a policy from an IAM group

The following delete-group-policy command deletes the policy named ExamplePolicy from the group named Admins.

aws iam delete-group-policy \ --group-name Admins \ --policy-name ExamplePolicy

This command produces no output.

To see the policies attached to a group, use the list-group-policies command.

For more information, see Managing IAM policies in the AWS IAM User Guide.

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