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DeleteUser

Deletes the specified IAM user.

Permissions​

ActionDescriptionResource
DeleteUserGrants permission to delete the specified IAM useruser

Request Parameters​

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

UserName

The email of the user to delete.

Type: String

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

Required: Yes

Errors​

ConcurrentModification

The request was rejected because multiple requests to change this object were submitted simultaneously. Wait a few minutes and submit your request again.

HTTP Status Code: 409

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

LimitExceeded

The request was rejected because it attempted to create resources beyond the current AWS 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 DeleteUser.

https://<partition>.iam.astran.io/?Action=DeleteUser
&UserName=Bob
&Version=2010-05-08
&AUTHPARAMS
<DeleteUserResponse xmlns="https://iam.amazonaws.com/doc/2010-05-08/">
  <ResponseMetadata>
    <RequestId>7a62c49f-347e-4fc4-9331-6e8eEXAMPLE</RequestId>
  </ResponseMetadata>
</DeleteUserResponse>

See Also​

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