Request Syntax URI Request Parameters Request Body Response Syntax Response Elements Errors Examples See Also

DeleteGroup

Deletes the specified resource group. Deleting a resource group does not delete any resources that are members of the group; it only deletes the group structure.

Minimum permissions

To run this command, you must have the following permissions:

resource-groups:DeleteGroup

Request Syntax


POST /delete-group HTTP/1.1
Content-type: application/json

{
   "Group": "string",
   "GroupName": "string"
}

URI Request Parameters

The request does not use any URI parameters.

Request Body

The request accepts the following data in JSON format.

Group

The name or the ARN of the resource group to delete.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 1600.

Pattern: (arn:aws(-[a-z]+)*:resource-groups:[a-z]{2}(-[a-z]+)+-\d{1}:[0-9]{12}:group/)?[a-zA-Z0-9_\.-]{1,300}

Required: No

GroupName

Deprecated - don't use this parameter. Use Group instead.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 300.

Pattern: [a-zA-Z0-9_\.-]+

Required: No

Response Syntax


HTTP/1.1 200
Content-type: application/json

{
   "Group": { 
      "Description": "string",
      "GroupArn": "string",
      "Name": "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.

Group

A full description of the deleted resource group.

Type: Group object

Errors

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

BadRequestException

The request includes one or more parameters that violate validation rules.

HTTP Status Code: 400

ForbiddenException

The caller isn't authorized to make the request. Check permissions.

HTTP Status Code: 403

InternalServerErrorException

An internal error occurred while processing the request. Try again later.

HTTP Status Code: 500

MethodNotAllowedException

The request uses an HTTP method that isn't allowed for the specified resource.

HTTP Status Code: 405

NotFoundException

One or more of the specified resources don't exist.

HTTP Status Code: 404

TooManyRequestsException

You've exceeded throttling limits by making too many requests in a period of time.

HTTP Status Code: 429

Examples

Example

The following example deletes the resource group with the name MyGroup in the us-west-2 Region of the calling account.

Sample Request


POST /delete-group HTTP/1.1
Host: resource-groups.us-west-2.amazonaws.com
Accept-Encoding: identity
User-Agent: aws-cli/2.2.40 Python/3.8.8 Windows/10 exe/AMD64 prompt/off command/resource-groups.delete-group
X-Amz-Date: 20220113T205913Z
X-Amz-Security-Token: <SECURITY-TOKEN>
Authorization: AWS4-HMAC-SHA256 Credential=<ACCESS-KEY>/20220113/us-west-2/resource-groups/aws4_request,SignedHeaders=host;x-amz-date;x-amz-security-token,Signature=<SIGV4-SIGNATURE>
Content-Length: 20

{
    "Group": "MyGroup"
}

Sample Response


HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2022 20:59:14 GMT
Content-Type: application/json
Content-Length: 127
x-amzn-RequestId: <VARIES>
x-amz-apigw-id: <VARIES>
X-Amzn-Trace-Id: Root=<VARIES>
Connection: keep-alive

{
    "Group":{
        "GroupArn":"arn:aws:resource-groups:us-west-2:123456789012:group/MyGroup",
        "Name":"MyGroup",
        "OwnerId":"123456789012"
    }
}