DetachPolicy - Amazon IoT
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DetachPolicy

Detaches a policy from the specified target.

Note

Because of the distributed nature of Amazon, it can take up to five minutes after a policy is detached before it's ready to be deleted.

Requires permission to access the DetachPolicy action.

Request Syntax

POST /target-policies/policyName HTTP/1.1 Content-type: application/json { "target": "string" }

URI Request Parameters

The request uses the following URI parameters.

policyName

The policy to detach.

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 128.

Pattern: [\w+=,.@-]+

Required: Yes

Request Body

The request accepts the following data in JSON format.

target

The target from which the policy will be detached.

Type: String

Required: Yes

Response Syntax

HTTP/1.1 200

Response Elements

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

Errors

InternalFailureException

An unexpected error has occurred.

HTTP Status Code: 500

InvalidRequestException

The request is not valid.

HTTP Status Code: 400

LimitExceededException

A limit has been exceeded.

HTTP Status Code: 410

ServiceUnavailableException

The service is temporarily unavailable.

HTTP Status Code: 503

ThrottlingException

The rate exceeds the limit.

HTTP Status Code: 400

UnauthorizedException

You are not authorized to perform this operation.

HTTP Status Code: 401

See Also

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