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GetResourcePolicy - AWS Lambda

GetResourcePolicy

Retrieves the resource-based policy attached to a Lambda resource.

Request Syntax

GET /2026-07-09/resource-policy/ResourceArn HTTP/1.1

URI Request Parameters

The request uses the following URI parameters.

ResourceArn

The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the Lambda resource you want to retrieve the policy for. You can use a qualified or an unqualified ARN. The value must be a complete ARN, and the operation does not accept wildcard characters.

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 0. Maximum length of 256.

Pattern: arn:(aws[a-zA-Z-]*)?:lambda:(eusc-)?[a-z]{2}((-gov)|(-iso([a-z]?)))?-[a-z]+-\d{1}:\d{12}:function:[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+(:(\$LATEST(\.PUBLISHED)?|[a-zA-Z0-9-_])+)?

Required: Yes

Request Body

The request does not have a request body.

Response Syntax

HTTP/1.1 200 Content-type: application/json { "Policy": "string", "RevisionId": "string" }

Response Elements

If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 200 response.

The following data is returned in JSON format by the service.

Policy

The resource-based policy attached to the Lambda resource you specified.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 20480.

Pattern: [\s\S]+

RevisionId

The revision ID of the policy. Pass this value as the RevisionId in a PutResourcePolicy or DeleteResourcePolicy request. Doing so ensures the operation acts on the expected version of the policy.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Fixed length of 36.

Pattern: [0-9a-f]{8}-[0-9a-f]{4}-[0-9a-f]{4}-[0-9a-f]{4}-[0-9a-f]{12}

Errors

For information about the errors that are common to all actions, see Common Error Types.

InvalidParameterValueException

One of the parameters in the request is not valid.

message

The exception message.

Type

The exception type.

HTTP Status Code: 400

ResourceNotFoundException

The resource specified in the request does not exist.

HTTP Status Code: 404

ServiceException

The AWS Lambda service encountered an internal error.

HTTP Status Code: 500

TooManyRequestsException

The request throughput limit was exceeded. For more information, see Lambda quotas.

retryAfterSeconds

The number of seconds the caller should wait before retrying.

HTTP Status Code: 429

See Also

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