DeleteKeyPair

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud: 2009-08-15

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DeleteKeyPair

Description

Deletes the specified key pair, by removing the public key from Amazon EC2. You must own the key pair.

Request Parameters

NameDescriptionRequired

DeleteKeyPairType

DeleteKeyPairType element.

Type:

DeleteKeyPairType

Ancestor: None

Children: keyName

keyName

Name of the key pair to delete.

Type: xsd:string

Default: None

Ancestor: DeleteKeyPairType

Children: None

Yes

Response Elements

Name Description

DeleteKeyPairResponseType

DeleteKeyPairResponseType element.

Type: DeleteKeyPairResponseType

Ancestor: None

Children: requestId, return

requestId

The ID of the request.

Type: xsd:string

Ancestor: DeleteKeyPairResponseType

Children: None

return

Returns

Type: xsd:boolean

Ancestor: DeleteKeyPairResponseType

Children: None

Examples

Example Request

This example deletes the gsg-keypair key pair.

<DeleteKeyPair xmlns="http://ec2.amazonaws.com/doc/2009-08-15/">
  <keyName>gsg-keypair</keyName>
</DeleteKeyPair>

Example Response

<DeleteKeyPairResponse xmlns="http://ec2.amazonaws.com/doc/2009-08-15/">
  <return>true</return>
</DeleteKeyPairResponse>
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