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UntagRole

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UntagRole - AWS Identity and Access Management
Request ParametersErrorsExamplesSee Also

Removes the specified tags from the role. For more information about tagging, see Tagging IAM resources in the IAM User Guide.

Request Parameters

For information about the parameters that are common to all actions, see Common Parameters.

RoleName

The name of the IAM role from which you want to remove tags.

This parameter accepts (through its regex pattern) a string of characters that consist 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

TagKeys.member.N

A list of key names as a simple array of strings. The tags with matching keys are removed from the specified role.

Type: Array of strings

Array Members: Maximum number of 50 items.

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 128.

Pattern: [\p{L}\p{Z}\p{N}_.:/=+\-@]+

Required: Yes

Errors

For information about the errors that are common to all actions, see Common Errors.

ConcurrentModification

The request was rejected because multiple requests to change this object were submitted simultaneously. Wait a few minutes and submit your request again.

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

ServiceFailure

The request processing has failed because of an unknown error, exception or failure.

HTTP Status Code: 500

Examples

Example

The following example is formatted with line breaks for legibility.

The following example shows how to remove a tag with the key Dept from a role named taggedrole.

Sample Request

POST / HTTP/1.1
Host: https://iam.amazonaws.com
Accept-Encoding: identity
User-Agent: aws-cli/1.11.143 Python/3.6.1 Linux/3.2.45-0.6.wd.865.49.315.metal1.x86_64 botocore/1.7.1
X-Amz-Date: 20170929T182851Z
Authorization: <auth details>
Content-Length: 78
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded

Action=UntagRole&Version=2010-05-08&RoleName=taggedrole
       &TagKeys.member.1=Dept

Sample Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
x-amzn-RequestId: EXAMPLE8-90ab-cdef-fedc-ba987EXAMPLE
Content-Type: text/xml
Content-Length: 198
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2017 18:28:50 GMT

<UntagRoleResponse xmlns="https://iam.amazonaws.com/doc/2010-05-08/">
  <ResponseMetadata>
    <RequestId>EXAMPLE8-90ab-cdef-fedc-ba987EXAMPLE</RequestId>
  </ResponseMetadata>
</UntagRoleResponse>

See Also

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

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