DeletePolicyVersion
Deletes the specified version from the specified managed policy.
You cannot delete the default version from a policy using this operation. To delete the default version from a policy, use DeletePolicy. To find out which version of a policy is marked as the default version, use ListPolicyVersions.
For information about versions for managed policies, see Versioning for managed policies in the IAM User Guide.
Request Parameters
For information about the parameters that are common to all actions, see Common Parameters.
- PolicyArn
-
The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the IAM policy from which you want to delete a version.
For more information about ARNs, see Amazon Resource Names (ARNs) in the Amazon General Reference.
Type: String
Length Constraints: Minimum length of 20. Maximum length of 2048.
Required: Yes
- VersionId
-
The policy version to delete.
This parameter allows (through its regex pattern
) a string of characters that consists of the lowercase letter 'v' followed by one or two digits, and optionally followed by a period '.' and a string of letters and digits. For more information about managed policy versions, see Versioning for managed policies in the IAM User Guide.
Type: String
Pattern:
v[1-9][0-9]*(\.[A-Za-z0-9-]*)?
Required: Yes
Errors
For information about the errors that are common to all actions, see Common Errors.
- DeleteConflict
-
The request was rejected because it attempted to delete a resource that has attached subordinate entities. The error message describes these entities.
HTTP Status Code: 409
- InvalidInput
-
The request was rejected because an invalid or out-of-range value was supplied for an input parameter.
HTTP Status Code: 400
- LimitExceeded
-
The request was rejected because it attempted to create resources beyond the current Amazon Web Services account limits. The error message describes the limit exceeded.
HTTP Status Code: 409
- NoSuchEntity
-
The request was rejected because it referenced a resource entity that does not exist. The error message describes the resource.
HTTP Status Code: 404
- ServiceFailure
-
The request processing has failed because of an unknown error, exception or failure.
HTTP Status Code: 500
Examples
Example
This example illustrates one usage of DeletePolicyVersion.
Sample Request
https://iam.amazonaws.com/?Action=DeletePolicyVersion
&PolicyArn=arn:aws:iam::123456789012:policy/S3-read-only-example-bucket
&VersionId=v2
&Version=2010-05-08
&AUTHPARAMS
Sample Response
<DeletePolicyVersionResponse xmlns="https://iam.amazonaws.com/doc/2010-05-08/">
<ResponseMetadata>
<RequestId>268e1556-3d19-11e4-a4a0-cffb9EXAMPLE</RequestId>
</ResponseMetadata>
</DeletePolicyVersionResponse>
See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific Amazon SDKs, see the following: