DeleteStateMachine - Amazon Step Functions
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DeleteStateMachine

Deletes a state machine. This is an asynchronous operation. It sets the state machine's status to DELETING and begins the deletion process. A state machine is deleted only when all its executions are completed. On the next state transition, the state machine's executions are terminated.

A qualified state machine ARN can either refer to a Distributed Map state defined within a state machine, a version ARN, or an alias ARN.

The following are some examples of qualified and unqualified state machine ARNs:

  • The following qualified state machine ARN refers to a Distributed Map state with a label mapStateLabel in a state machine named myStateMachine.

    arn:partition:states:region:account-id:stateMachine:myStateMachine/mapStateLabel

    Note

    If you provide a qualified state machine ARN that refers to a Distributed Map state, the request fails with ValidationException.

  • The following unqualified state machine ARN refers to a state machine named myStateMachine.

    arn:partition:states:region:account-id:stateMachine:myStateMachine

This API action also deletes all versions and aliases associated with a state machine.

Note

For EXPRESS state machines, the deletion happens eventually (usually in less than a minute). Running executions may emit logs after DeleteStateMachine API is called.

Request Syntax

{ "stateMachineArn": "string" }

Request Parameters

For information about the parameters that are common to all actions, see Common Parameters.

The request accepts the following data in JSON format.

stateMachineArn

The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the state machine to delete.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 256.

Required: Yes

Response Elements

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

Errors

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

InvalidArn

The provided Amazon Resource Name (ARN) is not valid.

HTTP Status Code: 400

ValidationException

The input does not satisfy the constraints specified by an Amazon service.

HTTP Status Code: 400

See Also

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