Deletes the specified IAM user. Unlike the Amazon Web Services Management Console, when you delete a user programmatically, you must delete the items attached to the user manually, or the deletion fails. For more information, see Deleting an IAM user. Before attempting to delete a user, remove the following items:
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Password (DeleteLoginProfile)
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Access keys (DeleteAccessKey)
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Signing certificate (DeleteSigningCertificate)
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SSH public key (DeleteSSHPublicKey)
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Git credentials (DeleteServiceSpecificCredential)
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Multi-factor authentication (MFA) device (DeactivateMFADevice, DeleteVirtualMFADevice)
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Inline policies (DeleteUserPolicy)
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Attached managed policies (DetachUserPolicy)
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Group memberships (RemoveUserFromGroup)
get/#Action=DeleteUser
Query parameters
UserNamestring required
<p>The name of the user to delete.</p> <p>This parameter allows (through its <a href="http://wikipedia.org/wiki/regex">regex pattern</a>) a string of characters consisting of upper and lowercase alphanumeric characters with no spaces. You can also include any of the following characters: _+=,.@-</p>
Action'DeleteUser' required
Version'2010-05-08' required
Response
Success