# DeleteConformancePack
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Deletes the specified conformance pack and all the Amazon Config rules, remediation actions, and all evaluation results within that conformance pack.

 Amazon Config sets the conformance pack to `DELETE_IN_PROGRESS` until the deletion is complete. You cannot update a conformance pack while it is in this state.

**Note**  
 **Recommendation: Consider excluding the `AWS::Config::ResourceCompliance` resource type from recording before deleting rules**   
Deleting rules creates configuration items (CIs) for `AWS::Config::ResourceCompliance` that can affect your costs for the configuration recorder. If you are deleting rules which evaluate a large number of resource types, this can lead to a spike in the number of CIs recorded.  
To avoid the associated costs, you can opt to disable recording for the `AWS::Config::ResourceCompliance` resource type before deleting rules, and re-enable recording after the rules have been deleted.  
However, since deleting rules is an asynchronous process, it might take an hour or more to complete. During the time when recording is disabled for `AWS::Config::ResourceCompliance`, rule evaluations will not be recorded in the associated resource’s history.

## Request Syntax
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```
{
   "ConformancePackName": "string"
}
```

## Request Parameters
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For information about the parameters that are common to all actions, see [Common Parameters](CommonParameters.md).

The request accepts the following data in JSON format.

 ** [ConformancePackName](#API_DeleteConformancePack_RequestSyntax) **   <a name="config-DeleteConformancePack-request-ConformancePackName"></a>
Name of the conformance pack you want to delete.  
Type: String  
Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 256.  
Pattern: `[a-zA-Z][-a-zA-Z0-9]*`   
Required: Yes

## Response Elements
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If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 200 response with an empty HTTP body.

## Errors
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For information about the errors that are common to all actions, see [Common Error Types](CommonErrors.md).

 ** NoSuchConformancePackException **   
You specified one or more conformance packs that do not exist.  
HTTP Status Code: 400

 ** ResourceInUseException **   
You see this exception in the following cases:   
+ For DeleteConfigRule, Amazon Config is deleting this rule. Try your request again later.
+ For DeleteConfigRule, the rule is deleting your evaluation results. Try your request again later.
+ For DeleteConfigRule, a remediation action is associated with the rule and Amazon Config cannot delete this rule. Delete the remediation action associated with the rule before deleting the rule and try your request again later.
+ For PutConfigOrganizationRule, organization Amazon Config rule deletion is in progress. Try your request again later.
+ For DeleteOrganizationConfigRule, organization Amazon Config rule creation is in progress. Try your request again later.
+ For PutConformancePack and PutOrganizationConformancePack, a conformance pack creation, update, and deletion is in progress. Try your request again later.
+ For DeleteConformancePack, a conformance pack creation, update, and deletion is in progress. Try your request again later.
HTTP Status Code: 400

## See Also
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For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific Amazon SDKs, see the following:
+  [Amazon Command Line Interface V2](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/goto/cli2/config-2014-11-12/DeleteConformancePack) 
+  [Amazon SDK for .NET V4](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/goto/DotNetSDKV4/config-2014-11-12/DeleteConformancePack) 
+  [Amazon SDK for C\$1\$1](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/goto/SdkForCpp/config-2014-11-12/DeleteConformancePack) 
+  [Amazon SDK for Go v2](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/goto/SdkForGoV2/config-2014-11-12/DeleteConformancePack) 
+  [Amazon SDK for Java V2](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/goto/SdkForJavaV2/config-2014-11-12/DeleteConformancePack) 
+  [Amazon SDK for JavaScript V3](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/goto/SdkForJavaScriptV3/config-2014-11-12/DeleteConformancePack) 
+  [Amazon SDK for Kotlin](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/goto/SdkForKotlin/config-2014-11-12/DeleteConformancePack) 
+  [Amazon SDK for PHP V3](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/goto/SdkForPHPV3/config-2014-11-12/DeleteConformancePack) 
+  [Amazon SDK for Python](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/goto/boto3/config-2014-11-12/DeleteConformancePack) 
+  [Amazon SDK for Ruby V3](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/goto/SdkForRubyV3/config-2014-11-12/DeleteConformancePack)