Deletes the specified grant. You revoke a grant to terminate the permissions that the grant allows. For more information, see
Retiring and revoking grants in the
Key Management Service Developer Guide.
When you create, retire, or revoke a grant, there might be a brief delay, usually less than five minutes, until the grant is available throughout KMS. This state is known as
eventual consistency. For details, see
Eventual consistency in the
Key Management Service Developer Guide.
For detailed information about grants, including grant terminology, see
Grants in KMS in the
Key Management Service Developer Guide. For examples of working with grants in several programming languages, see
Programming grants.
Cross-account use: Yes. To perform this operation on a KMS key in a different Amazon Web Services account, specify the key ARN in the value of the
KeyId parameter.
Required permissions:
kms:RevokeGrant (key policy).
Related operations:Eventual consistency: The KMS API follows an eventual consistency model. For more information, see
KMS eventual consistency.