# DeleteWorkforce
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Use this operation to delete a workforce.

If you want to create a new workforce in an AWS Region where a workforce already exists, use this operation to delete the existing workforce and then use [CreateWorkforce](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sagemaker/latest/APIReference/API_CreateWorkforce.html) to create a new workforce.

**Important**  
If a private workforce contains one or more work teams, you must use the [DeleteWorkteam](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sagemaker/latest/APIReference/API_DeleteWorkteam.html) operation to delete all work teams before you delete the workforce. If you try to delete a workforce that contains one or more work teams, you will receive a `ResourceInUse` error.

## Request Syntax
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```
{
   "WorkforceName": "string"
}
```

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

The request accepts the following data in JSON format.

 ** [WorkforceName](#API_DeleteWorkforce_RequestSyntax) **   <a name="sagemaker-DeleteWorkforce-request-WorkforceName"></a>
The name of the workforce.  
Type: String  
Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 63.  
Pattern: `[a-zA-Z0-9]([a-zA-Z0-9\-]){0,62}`   
Required: Yes

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

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

## 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/sagemaker-2017-07-24/DeleteWorkforce) 
+  [AWS SDK for .NET V4](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/DotNetSDKV4/sagemaker-2017-07-24/DeleteWorkforce) 
+  [AWS SDK for C\$1\$1](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForCpp/sagemaker-2017-07-24/DeleteWorkforce) 
+  [AWS SDK for Go v2](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForGoV2/sagemaker-2017-07-24/DeleteWorkforce) 
+  [AWS SDK for Java V2](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForJavaV2/sagemaker-2017-07-24/DeleteWorkforce) 
+  [AWS SDK for JavaScript V3](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForJavaScriptV3/sagemaker-2017-07-24/DeleteWorkforce) 
+  [AWS SDK for Kotlin](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForKotlin/sagemaker-2017-07-24/DeleteWorkforce) 
+  [AWS SDK for PHP V3](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForPHPV3/sagemaker-2017-07-24/DeleteWorkforce) 
+  [AWS SDK for Python](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/boto3/sagemaker-2017-07-24/DeleteWorkforce) 
+  [AWS SDK for Ruby V3](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForRubyV3/sagemaker-2017-07-24/DeleteWorkforce)