Request Syntax Request Parameters Response Syntax Response Elements Errors Examples See Also

DeleteResourcePolicy

Deletes the resource-based policy attached to the resource, which can be a table or stream.

DeleteResourcePolicy is an idempotent operation; running it multiple times on the same resource doesn't result in an error response, unless you specify an ExpectedRevisionId, which will then return a PolicyNotFoundException.

Important

To make sure that you don't inadvertently lock yourself out of your own resources, the root principal in your AWS account can perform DeleteResourcePolicy requests, even if your resource-based policy explicitly denies the root principal's access.

Note

DeleteResourcePolicy is an asynchronous operation. If you issue a GetResourcePolicy request immediately after running the DeleteResourcePolicy request, DynamoDB might still return the deleted policy. This is because the policy for your resource might not have been deleted yet. Wait for a few seconds, and then try the GetResourcePolicy request again.

Request Syntax


{
   "ExpectedRevisionId": "string",
   "ResourceArn": "string"
}

Request Parameters

The request accepts the following data in JSON format.

Note

In the following list, the required parameters are described first.

ResourceArn

The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the DynamoDB resource from which the policy will be removed. The resources you can specify include tables and streams. If you remove the policy of a table, it will also remove the permissions for the table's indexes defined in that policy document. This is because index permissions are defined in the table's policy.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 1283.

Required: Yes

ExpectedRevisionId

A string value that you can use to conditionally delete your policy. When you provide an expected revision ID, if the revision ID of the existing policy on the resource doesn't match or if there's no policy attached to the resource, the request will fail and return a PolicyNotFoundException.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 255.

Required: No

Response Syntax


{
   "RevisionId": "string"
}

Response Elements

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

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

RevisionId

A unique string that represents the revision ID of the policy. If you're comparing revision IDs, make sure to always use string comparison logic.

This value will be empty if you make a request against a resource without a policy.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 255.

Errors

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

InternalServerError

An error occurred on the server side.

HTTP Status Code: 500

LimitExceededException

There is no limit to the number of daily on-demand backups that can be taken.

For most purposes, up to 500 simultaneous table operations are allowed per account. These operations include CreateTable, UpdateTable, DeleteTable,UpdateTimeToLive, RestoreTableFromBackup, and RestoreTableToPointInTime.

When you are creating a table with one or more secondary indexes, you can have up to 250 such requests running at a time. However, if the table or index specifications are complex, then DynamoDB might temporarily reduce the number of concurrent operations.

When importing into DynamoDB, up to 50 simultaneous import table operations are allowed per account.

There is a soft account quota of 2,500 tables.

GetRecords was called with a value of more than 1000 for the limit request parameter.

More than 2 processes are reading from the same streams shard at the same time. Exceeding this limit may result in request throttling.

HTTP Status Code: 400

PolicyNotFoundException

The operation tried to access a nonexistent resource-based policy.

If you specified an ExpectedRevisionId, it's possible that a policy is present for the resource but its revision ID didn't match the expected value.

HTTP Status Code: 400

ResourceInUseException

The operation conflicts with the resource's availability. For example:

You attempted to recreate an existing table.
You tried to delete a table currently in the CREATING state.
You tried to update a resource that was already being updated.

When appropriate, wait for the ongoing update to complete and attempt the request again.

HTTP Status Code: 400

ResourceNotFoundException

The operation tried to access a nonexistent table or index. The resource might not be specified correctly, or its status might not be ACTIVE.

HTTP Status Code: 400

Examples

Delete the resource-based policy of a table

The following example deletes the resource-based policy of a table named Thread.

Sample Request


POST / HTTP/1.1
Host: dynamodb.<region>.<domain>;
Accept-Encoding: identity
Content-Length: <PayloadSizeBytes>
User-Agent: <UserAgentString>
Content-Type: application/x-amz-json-1.0
Authorization: AWS4-HMAC-SHA256 Credential=<Credential>, SignedHeaders=<Headers>, Signature=<Signature>
X-Amz-Date: <Date>
X-Amz-Target: DynamoDB_20120810.DeleteResourcePolicy
{
    "ResourceArn": "arn:aws:dynamodb:us-west-2:123456789012:table/Thread"
}

Sample Response


HTTP/1.1 200 OK
x-amzn-RequestId: <RequestId>
x-amz-crc32: <Checksum>
Content-Type: application/x-amz-json-1.0
Content-Length: <PayloadSizeBytes>
Date: <Date>
{
    "RevisionId": "1683717331354"
}