# GetPolicy
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Retrieves information about the specified managed policy, including the policy's default version and the total number of IAM users, groups, and roles to which the policy is attached. To retrieve the list of the specific users, groups, and roles that the policy is attached to, use [ListEntitiesForPolicy](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/APIReference/API_ListEntitiesForPolicy.html). This operation returns metadata about the policy. To retrieve the actual policy document for a specific version of the policy, use [GetPolicyVersion](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/APIReference/API_GetPolicyVersion.html).

This operation retrieves information about managed policies. To retrieve information about an inline policy that is embedded with an IAM user, group, or role, use [GetUserPolicy](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/APIReference/API_GetUserPolicy.html), [GetGroupPolicy](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/APIReference/API_GetGroupPolicy.html), or [GetRolePolicy](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/APIReference/API_GetRolePolicy.html).

For more information about policies, see [Managed policies and inline policies](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/policies-managed-vs-inline.html) in the *IAM User Guide*.

## Request Parameters
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 For information about the parameters that are common to all actions, see [Common Parameters](CommonParameters.md).

 ** PolicyArn **   
The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the managed policy that you want information about.  
For more information about ARNs, see [Amazon Resource Names (ARNs)](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/aws-arns-and-namespaces.html) in the * AWS General Reference*.  
Type: String  
Length Constraints: Minimum length of 20. Maximum length of 2048.  
Required: Yes

## Response Elements
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The following element is returned by the service.

 ** Policy **   
A structure containing details about the policy.  
Type: [Policy](API_Policy.md) object

## Errors
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For information about the errors that are common to all actions, see [Common Error Types](CommonErrors.md).

 ** InvalidInput **   
The request was rejected because an invalid or out-of-range value was supplied for an input parameter.  
HTTP Status Code: 400

 ** 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
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### Example
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This example illustrates one usage of GetPolicy.

#### Sample Request
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```
https://iam.amazonaws.com/?Action=GetPolicy
&PolicyArn=arn:aws:iam::123456789012:policy/S3-read-only-example-bucket
&Version=2010-05-08
&AUTHPARAMS
```

#### Sample Response
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```
<GetPolicyResponse xmlns="https://iam.amazonaws.com/doc/2010-05-08/">
  <GetPolicyResult>
    <Policy>
      <PolicyName>S3-read-only-example-bucket</PolicyName>
      <Description>Allows read-only access to the example bucket</Description>
      <DefaultVersionId>v1</DefaultVersionId>
      <PolicyId>AGPACKCEVSQ6C2EXAMPLE</PolicyId>
      <Path>/</Path>
      <Arn>arn:aws:iam::123456789012:policy/S3-read-only-example-bucket</Arn>
      <AttachmentCount>9</AttachmentCount>
      <CreateDate>2014-09-15T17:36:14Z</CreateDate>
      <UpdateDate>2014-09-15T20:31:47Z</UpdateDate>
    </Policy>
  </GetPolicyResult>
  <ResponseMetadata>
    <RequestId>684f0917-3d22-11e4-a4a0-cffb9EXAMPLE</RequestId>
  </ResponseMetadata>
</GetPolicyResponse>
```

## See Also
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For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:
+  [AWS Command Line Interface V2](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/cli2/iam-2010-05-08/GetPolicy) 
+  [AWS SDK for .NET V4](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/DotNetSDKV4/iam-2010-05-08/GetPolicy) 
+  [AWS SDK for C\$1\$1](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForCpp/iam-2010-05-08/GetPolicy) 
+  [AWS SDK for Go v2](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForGoV2/iam-2010-05-08/GetPolicy) 
+  [AWS SDK for Java V2](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForJavaV2/iam-2010-05-08/GetPolicy) 
+  [AWS SDK for JavaScript V3](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForJavaScriptV3/iam-2010-05-08/GetPolicy) 
+  [AWS SDK for Kotlin](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForKotlin/iam-2010-05-08/GetPolicy) 
+  [AWS SDK for PHP V3](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForPHPV3/iam-2010-05-08/GetPolicy) 
+  [AWS SDK for Python](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/boto3/iam-2010-05-08/GetPolicy) 
+  [AWS SDK for Ruby V3](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForRubyV3/iam-2010-05-08/GetPolicy)