AWS SDK Version 3 for .NET
API Reference

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Retrieves information about the specified managed policy, including the policy's default version and the total number of IAM users, groups, and roles to which the policy is attached. To retrieve the list of the specific users, groups, and roles that the policy is attached to, use ListEntitiesForPolicy. This operation returns metadata about the policy. To retrieve the actual policy document for a specific version of the policy, use GetPolicyVersion.

This operation retrieves information about managed policies. To retrieve information about an inline policy that is embedded with an IAM user, group, or role, use GetUserPolicy, GetGroupPolicy, or GetRolePolicy.

For more information about policies, see Managed policies and inline policies in the IAM User Guide.

Note:

For .NET Core this operation is only available in asynchronous form. Please refer to GetPolicyAsync.

Namespace: Amazon.IdentityManagement
Assembly: AWSSDK.IdentityManagement.dll
Version: 3.x.y.z

Syntax

C#
public abstract GetPolicyResponse GetPolicy(
         GetPolicyRequest request
)

Parameters

request
Type: Amazon.IdentityManagement.Model.GetPolicyRequest

Container for the necessary parameters to execute the GetPolicy service method.

Return Value


The response from the GetPolicy service method, as returned by IdentityManagementService.

Exceptions

ExceptionCondition
InvalidInputException The request was rejected because an invalid or out-of-range value was supplied for an input parameter.
NoSuchEntityException The request was rejected because it referenced a resource entity that does not exist. The error message describes the resource.
ServiceFailureException The request processing has failed because of an unknown error, exception or failure.

Version Information

.NET Framework:
Supported in: 4.5, 4.0, 3.5

See Also