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Deleting access points

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Deleting access points - Amazon Elastic File System

When you delete an access point, any clients that are using the access point lose access to the Amazon EFS file system that it's configured for.

  1. Open the Amazon Elastic File System console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/efs/.

  2. In the left navigation pane, choose Access points to open the Access points page.

  3. Select the access point to delete.

  4. Choose Delete.

  5. Choose Confirm to confirm the action and delete the access point.

  1. Open the Amazon Elastic File System console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/efs/.

  2. In the left navigation pane, choose Access points to open the Access points page.

  3. Select the access point to delete.

  4. Choose Delete.

  5. Choose Confirm to confirm the action and delete the access point.

In the following example, the delete-access-point CLI command deletes the specified access point. The equivalent API command is DeleteAccessPoint. If the command is successful, the service returns an HTTP 204 response with an empty HTTP body.

aws efs delete-access-point --access-point-id fsap-092e9f80b3fb5e6f3 --client-token 010102020-3

In the following example, the delete-access-point CLI command deletes the specified access point. The equivalent API command is DeleteAccessPoint. If the command is successful, the service returns an HTTP 204 response with an empty HTTP body.

aws efs delete-access-point --access-point-id fsap-092e9f80b3fb5e6f3 --client-token 010102020-3
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