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DetachRolePolicy

Removes the specified managed policy from the specified role.

Permissions​

ActionDescriptionResource
DetachRolePolicyGrants permission to detach a managed policy from the specified rolerole

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 you want to detach.

For more information about ARNs, see Amazon Resource Names (ARNs) in the AWS General Reference.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 20. Maximum length of 2048.

Required: Yes

RoleName

The name (friendly name, not ARN) of the IAM role to detach the policy from.

This parameter allows (through its regex pattern) a string of characters consisting of upper and lowercase alphanumeric characters with no spaces. You can also include any of the following characters: _+=,.@-

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 64.

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

Required: Yes

Errors​

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 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

InternalError

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 DetachRolePolicy.

https://<partition>.iam.astran.io/?Action=DetachRolePolicy
&PolicyArn=arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/ReadOnlyAccess
&RoleName=ReadOnlyRole
&Version=2010-05-08
&AUTHPARAMS
<DetachRolePolicyResponse xmlns="https://iam.amazonaws.com/doc/2010-05-08/">
  <ResponseMetadata>
    <RequestId>4c80ccf4-3d1e-11e4-a4a0-cffb9EXAMPLE</RequestId>
  </ResponseMetadata>
</DetachRolePolicyResponse>

See Also​

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