# GetLifecyclePolicies
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Gets summary information about all or the specified data lifecycle policies.

To get complete information about a policy, use [GetLifecyclePolicy](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/dlm/latest/APIReference/API_GetLifecyclePolicy.html).

## Request Syntax
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```
GET /policies?defaultPolicyType=DefaultPolicyType&policyIds=PolicyIds&resourceTypes=ResourceTypes&state=State&tagsToAdd=TagsToAdd&targetTags=TargetTags HTTP/1.1
```

## URI Request Parameters
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The request uses the following URI parameters.

 ** [DefaultPolicyType](#API_GetLifecyclePolicies_RequestSyntax) **   <a name="dlm-GetLifecyclePolicies-request-uri-DefaultPolicyType"></a>
 **[Default policies only]** Specifies the type of default policy to get. Specify one of the following:  
+  `VOLUME` - To get only the default policy for EBS snapshots
+  `INSTANCE` - To get only the default policy for EBS-backed AMIs
+  `ALL` - To get all default policies
Valid Values: `VOLUME | INSTANCE | ALL` 

 ** [PolicyIds](#API_GetLifecyclePolicies_RequestSyntax) **   <a name="dlm-GetLifecyclePolicies-request-uri-PolicyIds"></a>
The identifiers of the data lifecycle policies.  
Length Constraints: Minimum length of 0. Maximum length of 64.  
Pattern: `policy-[a-f0-9]+` 

 ** [ResourceTypes](#API_GetLifecyclePolicies_RequestSyntax) **   <a name="dlm-GetLifecyclePolicies-request-uri-ResourceTypes"></a>
The resource type.  
Array Members: Fixed number of 1 item.  
Valid Values: `VOLUME | INSTANCE` 

 ** [State](#API_GetLifecyclePolicies_RequestSyntax) **   <a name="dlm-GetLifecyclePolicies-request-uri-State"></a>
The activation state.  
Valid Values: `ENABLED | DISABLED | ERROR` 

 ** [TagsToAdd](#API_GetLifecyclePolicies_RequestSyntax) **   <a name="dlm-GetLifecyclePolicies-request-uri-TagsToAdd"></a>
The tags to add to objects created by the policy.  
Tags are strings in the format `key=value`.  
These user-defined tags are added in addition to the AWS-added lifecycle tags.  
Array Members: Minimum number of 0 items. Maximum number of 50 items.  
Length Constraints: Minimum length of 0. Maximum length of 256.  
Pattern: `[\p{all}]*` 

 ** [TargetTags](#API_GetLifecyclePolicies_RequestSyntax) **   <a name="dlm-GetLifecyclePolicies-request-uri-TargetTags"></a>
The target tag for a policy.  
Tags are strings in the format `key=value`.  
Array Members: Minimum number of 1 item. Maximum number of 50 items.  
Length Constraints: Minimum length of 0. Maximum length of 256.  
Pattern: `[\p{all}]*` 

## Request Body
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The request does not have a request body.

## Response Syntax
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```
HTTP/1.1 200
Content-type: application/json

{
   "Policies": [ 
      { 
         "DefaultPolicy": boolean,
         "Description": "string",
         "PolicyId": "string",
         "PolicyType": "string",
         "State": "string",
         "Tags": { 
            "string" : "string" 
         }
      }
   ]
}
```

## Response Elements
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If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 200 response.

The following data is returned in JSON format by the service.

 ** [Policies](#API_GetLifecyclePolicies_ResponseSyntax) **   <a name="dlm-GetLifecyclePolicies-response-Policies"></a>
Summary information about the lifecycle policies.  
Type: Array of [LifecyclePolicySummary](API_LifecyclePolicySummary.md) objects

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

 ** InternalServerException **   
The service failed in an unexpected way.  
HTTP Status Code: 500

 ** InvalidRequestException **   
Bad request. The request is missing required parameters or has invalid parameters.    
 ** MutuallyExclusiveParameters **   
The request included parameters that cannot be provided together.  
 ** RequiredParameters **   
The request omitted one or more required parameters.
HTTP Status Code: 400

 ** LimitExceededException **   
The request failed because a limit was exceeded.    
 ** ResourceType **   
Value is the type of resource for which a limit was exceeded.
HTTP Status Code: 429

 ** ResourceNotFoundException **   
A requested resource was not found.    
 ** ResourceIds **   
Value is a list of resource IDs that were not found.  
 ** ResourceType **   
Value is the type of resource that was not found.
HTTP Status Code: 404

## 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/dlm-2018-01-12/GetLifecyclePolicies) 
+  [AWS SDK for .NET V4](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/DotNetSDKV4/dlm-2018-01-12/GetLifecyclePolicies) 
+  [AWS SDK for C\$1\$1](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForCpp/dlm-2018-01-12/GetLifecyclePolicies) 
+  [AWS SDK for Go v2](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForGoV2/dlm-2018-01-12/GetLifecyclePolicies) 
+  [AWS SDK for Java V2](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForJavaV2/dlm-2018-01-12/GetLifecyclePolicies) 
+  [AWS SDK for JavaScript V3](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForJavaScriptV3/dlm-2018-01-12/GetLifecyclePolicies) 
+  [AWS SDK for Kotlin](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForKotlin/dlm-2018-01-12/GetLifecyclePolicies) 
+  [AWS SDK for PHP V3](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForPHPV3/dlm-2018-01-12/GetLifecyclePolicies) 
+  [AWS SDK for Python](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/boto3/dlm-2018-01-12/GetLifecyclePolicies) 
+  [AWS SDK for Ruby V3](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForRubyV3/dlm-2018-01-12/GetLifecyclePolicies)