DeletePolicy - Resource Management - Alibaba Cloud Documentation Center

Deletes a policy.

Operation description

Note

Before you delete a policy, you must delete all non-default versions of the policy. For more information about how to delete a policy version, see DeletePolicyVersion .
Before you delete a policy, make sure that the policy is not referenced. This means that the policy is not attached to RAM users, RAM user groups, or RAM roles. For more information about how to detach a policy, see DetachPolicy .

Debugging

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Authorization information

The following table shows the authorization information corresponding to the API. The authorization information can be used in the Action policy element to grant a RAM user or RAM role the permissions to call this API operation. Description:

Operation: the value that you can use in the Action element to specify the operation on a resource.
Access level: the access level of each operation. The levels are read, write, and list.
Resource type: the type of the resource on which you can authorize the RAM user or the RAM role to perform the operation. Take note of the following items:
- The required resource types are displayed in bold characters.
- If the permissions cannot be granted at the resource level, All Resources is used in the Resource type column of the operation.
Condition Key: the condition key that is defined by the cloud service.
Associated operation: other operations that the RAM user or the RAM role must have permissions to perform to complete the operation. To complete the operation, the RAM user or the RAM role must have the permissions to perform the associated operations.

Operation	Access level	Resource type	Condition key	Associated operation
ram:DeletePolicy	Write	Policy acs:ram:*:{#accountId}:policy/{#PolicyName}	none	none

Request parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Description	Example
PolicyName	string	Yes	The name of the policy. The name must be 1 to 128 characters in length and can contain letters, digits, and hyphens (-).	OSS-Administrator

Response parameters

Parameter	Type	Description	Example
	object
RequestId	string	The ID of the request.	898FAB24-7509-43EE-A287-086FE4C44394

Examples

Sample success responses

JSONformat

{
  "RequestId": "898FAB24-7509-43EE-A287-086FE4C44394"
}

Error codes

HTTP status code	Error code	Error message	Description
400	InvalidParameter.PolicyName.InvalidChars	The policy name contains invalid characters. It must only contain upper or lower case letters, numbers, and dash (-).	The policy name contains invalid characters. It must only contain upper or lower case letters, numbers, and dash (-).
400	InvalidParameter.PolicyName.Length	The length of the policy name is invalid. It must be 1 to 64 characters in length.	-
404	EntityNotExist.Policy	The policy does not exist.	The policy does not exist.
409	DeleteConflict.Policy.User	Before deleting the policy, it may not be attached to any user.	The policy must not be attached to any user when you delete it.
409	DeleteConflict.Policy.Group	The policy cannot be attached to any group when you delete it.	The policy cannot be attached to any group when you delete it.
409	DeleteConflict.Policy.Version	You must delete all non-default versions before you delete the policy.	You must delete all non-default versions before you delete the policy.

For a list of error codes, visit the Service error codes.

Change history

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