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DeleteAccountPolicy - Amazon CloudWatch Logs

DeleteAccountPolicy

Deletes a CloudWatch Logs account policy. This stops the account-wide policy from applying to log groups in the account. If you delete a data protection policy or subscription filter policy, any log-group level policies of those types remain in effect.

To use this operation, you must be signed on with the correct permissions depending on the type of policy that you are deleting.

  • To delete a data protection policy, you must have the logs:DeleteDataProtectionPolicy and logs:DeleteAccountPolicy permissions.

  • To delete a subscription filter policy, you must have the logs:DeleteSubscriptionFilter and logs:DeleteAccountPolicy permissions.

  • To delete a transformer policy, you must have the logs:DeleteTransformer and logs:DeleteAccountPolicy permissions.

  • To delete a field index policy, you must have the logs:DeleteIndexPolicy and logs:DeleteAccountPolicy permissions.

If you delete a field index policy, the indexing of the log events that happened before you deleted the policy will still be used for up to 30 days to improve CloudWatch Logs Insights queries.

Request Syntax

{ "policyName": "string", "policyType": "string" }

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.

policyName

The name of the policy to delete.

Type: String

Required: Yes

policyType

The type of policy to delete.

Type: String

Valid Values: DATA_PROTECTION_POLICY | SUBSCRIPTION_FILTER_POLICY | FIELD_INDEX_POLICY | TRANSFORMER_POLICY

Required: Yes

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.

InvalidParameterException

A parameter is specified incorrectly.

HTTP Status Code: 400

OperationAbortedException

Multiple concurrent requests to update the same resource were in conflict.

HTTP Status Code: 400

ResourceNotFoundException

The specified resource does not exist.

HTTP Status Code: 400

ServiceUnavailableException

The service cannot complete the request.

HTTP Status Code: 500

See Also

For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

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