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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:

  • Password (DeleteLoginProfile)

  • Access keys (DeleteAccessKey)

  • Signing certificate (DeleteSigningCertificate)

  • SSH public key (DeleteSSHPublicKey)

  • Git credentials (DeleteServiceSpecificCredential)

  • Multi-factor authentication (MFA) device (DeactivateMFADevice, DeleteVirtualMFADevice)

  • Inline policies (DeleteUserPolicy)

  • Attached managed policies (DetachUserPolicy)

  • 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