Updated on 2025-11-06 GMT+08:00

Deleting a Custom Identity Policy

Function

This API is used to delete a custom identity policy. Ensure that it is not attached to any IAM users, groups, agencies, or trust agencies.

Authorization Information

Each account has all the permissions required to call all APIs, but IAM users must be assigned the following required identity policy-based permissions. For details about the required permissions, see Permissions Policies and Supported Actions.

Action

Access Level

Resource Type (*: required)

Condition Key

Alias

Dependencies

iam:policies:deleteV5

Permission_management

policy *

-

-

-

URI

DELETE /v5/policies/{policy_id}

Table 1 Path Parameters

Parameter

Mandatory

Type

Description

policy_id

Yes

String

Identity policy ID. The value contains 1 to 64 characters, including only letters, digits, and hyphens (-).

Request Parameters

None

Response Parameters

Status code: 204

Successful

Status code: 403

Table 2 Response body parameters

Parameter

Type

Description

error_code

String

Error code.

error_msg

String

Error message.

request_id

String

Request ID.

encoded_authorization_message

String

Encrypted authentication failure information, which can be decrypted using the STS5 decryption API.

Status code: 404

Table 3 Response body parameters

Parameter

Type

Description

error_code

String

Error code.

error_msg

String

Error message.

request_id

String

Request ID.

Status code: 409

Table 4 Response body parameters

Parameter

Type

Description

error_code

String

Error code.

error_msg

String

Error message.

request_id

String

Request ID.

Example Requests

Deleting a specified custom identity policy

DELETE https://{endpoint}/v5/policies/{policy_id}

Example Responses

None

Status Codes

Status Code

Description

204

Successful

403

Forbidden

404

Not found

409

Conflict

Error Codes

See Error Codes.