detach-group-policy

Removes the specified managed policy from the specified IAM group.

A group can also have inline policies embedded with it. To delete an inline policy, use the DeleteGroupPolicy API. For information about policies, refer to Managed Policies and Inline Policies in the IAM User Guide.

Refer to AWS API Documentation.

Refer to AWS help for descriptions of global parameters.

Synopsis

detach-group-policy
  --group-name <value>
  --policy-arn <value>

Options

--group-name (string)

The name (friendly name, not ARN) of the IAM group to detach the policy from.

This parameter allows (through its regex pattern) a string of characters consisting of upper and lowercase alphanumeric characters with no spaces. You can also include any of the following characters: _, +, =, ,, ., @, and -.

--policy-arn (string)

The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the IAM policy you want to detach.

For more information about ARNs, refer to Amazon Resource Names (ARNs) and AWS Service Namespaces in the AWS General Reference.

Refer to AWS help for descriptions of global parameters.

Examples

To detach a policy from a group

This example removes the managed policy with the ARN arn:aws:iam::123456789012:policy/TesterAccessPolicy from the group called Testers

aws iam detach-group-policy --group-name Testers --policy-arn \
arn:aws:iam::123456789012:policy/TesterAccessPolicy

For more information, refer to Overview of IAM Policies in the Using IAM guide.