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DeleteCertificateAuthority

Deletes a private certificate authority (CA). You must provide the Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the private CA that you want to delete. You can find the ARN by calling the ListCertificateAuthorities action.

Note

Deleting a CA will invalidate other CAs and certificates below it in your CA hierarchy.

Before you can delete a CA that you have created and activated, you must disable it. To do this, call the UpdateCertificateAuthority action and set the CertificateAuthorityStatus parameter to DISABLED.

Additionally, you can delete a CA if you are waiting for it to be created (that is, the status of the CA is CREATING). You can also delete it if the CA has been created but you haven't yet imported the signed certificate into AWS Private CA (that is, the status of the CA is PENDING_CERTIFICATE).

When you successfully call DeleteCertificateAuthority, the CA's status changes to DELETED. However, the CA won't be permanently deleted until the restoration period has passed. By default, if you do not set the PermanentDeletionTimeInDays parameter, the CA remains restorable for 30 days. You can set the parameter from 7 to 30 days. The DescribeCertificateAuthority action returns the time remaining in the restoration window of a private CA in the DELETED state. To restore an eligible CA, call the RestoreCertificateAuthority action.

Request Syntax


{
   "CertificateAuthorityArn": "string",
   "PermanentDeletionTimeInDays": number
}

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.

CertificateAuthorityArn

The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) that was returned when you called CreateCertificateAuthority. This must have the following form:

arn:aws:acm-pca:region:account:certificate-authority/12345678-1234-1234-1234-123456789012.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 5. Maximum length of 200.

Pattern: arn:[\w+=/,.@-]+:acm-pca:[\w+=/,.@-]*:[0-9]*:[\w+=,.@-]+(/[\w+=,.@-]+)*

Required: Yes

PermanentDeletionTimeInDays

The number of days to make a CA restorable after it has been deleted. This can be anywhere from 7 to 30 days, with 30 being the default.

Type: Integer

Valid Range: Minimum value of 7. Maximum value of 30.

Required: No

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.

ConcurrentModificationException

A previous update to your private CA is still ongoing.

HTTP Status Code: 400

InvalidArnException

The requested Amazon Resource Name (ARN) does not refer to an existing resource.

HTTP Status Code: 400

InvalidStateException

The state of the private CA does not allow this action to occur.

HTTP Status Code: 400

ResourceNotFoundException

A resource such as a private CA, S3 bucket, certificate, audit report, or policy cannot be found.

HTTP Status Code: 400

Examples

Example

This example illustrates one usage of DeleteCertificateAuthority.

Sample Request


POST / HTTP/1.1
Host: acm-pca.amazonaws.com
Accept-Encoding: identity
Content-Length: 163
X-Amz-Target: ACMPrivateCA.DeleteCertificateAuthority
X-Amz-Date: 20180515T160248Z
User-Agent: aws-cli/1.15.4 Python/2.7.9 Windows/8 botocore/1.10.4
Content-Type: application/x-amz-json-1.1
Authorization: AWS4-HMAC-SHA256 Credential=AWS_Access_Key_ID/20180515/AWS_Region/acm-pca/aws4_request, 
SignedHeaders=content-type;host;x-amz-date;x-amz-target,
Signature=8f7e5b799989c607156141bc6856eb48acd45def7eecd2b2b7fbaa11f34d7bd1

{"PermanentDeletionTimeInDays": 17, "CertificateAuthorityArn": "arn:aws:acm-pca:us-west-2:493619779192:certificate-authority/4ce5e894-a076-4ed8-9d5c-42afbd4cbf88"}

Example

This example illustrates one usage of DeleteCertificateAuthority.

Sample Response


This function does not return a value.