Deletes an entire secret and all of its versions. You can optionally
include a recovery window during which you can restore the secret. If
you don't specify a recovery window value, the operation defaults to 30
days. Secrets Manager attaches a DeletionDate stamp to the secret that
specifies the end of the recovery window. At the end of the recovery
window, Secrets Manager deletes the secret permanently.
At any time before recovery window ends, you can use
restore_secret to remove the
DeletionDate and cancel the deletion of the secret.
You cannot access the encrypted secret information in any secret that is
scheduled for deletion. If you need to access that information, you must
cancel the deletion with
restore_secret and then retrieve the
information.
There is no explicit operation to delete a version of a secret.
Instead, remove all staging labels from the VersionStage field of
a version. That marks the version as deprecated and allows Secrets
Manager to delete it as needed. Versions that do not have any
staging labels do not show up in
list_secret_version_ids
unless you specify IncludeDeprecated.
The permanent secret deletion at the end of the waiting period is performed as a background task with low priority. There is no guarantee of a specific time after the recovery window for the actual delete operation to occur.
Minimum permissions
To run this command, you must have the following permissions:
secretsmanager:DeleteSecret
Related operations
To create a secret, use
create_secret.
To cancel deletion of a version of a secret before the recovery
window has expired, use
restore_secret.
secretsmanager_delete_secret(SecretId, RecoveryWindowInDays,
ForceDeleteWithoutRecovery)A list with the following syntax:
list(
ARN = "string",
Name = "string",
DeletionDate = as.POSIXct(
"2015-01-01"
)
)
[required] Specifies the secret that you want to delete. You can specify either the Amazon Resource Name (ARN) or the friendly name of the secret.
If you specify an ARN, we generally recommend that you specify a complete ARN. You can specify a partial ARN too—for example, if you don’t include the final hyphen and six random characters that Secrets Manager adds at the end of the ARN when you created the secret. A partial ARN match can work as long as it uniquely matches only one secret. However, if your secret has a name that ends in a hyphen followed by six characters (before Secrets Manager adds the hyphen and six characters to the ARN) and you try to use that as a partial ARN, then those characters cause Secrets Manager to assume that you’re specifying a complete ARN. This confusion can cause unexpected results. To avoid this situation, we recommend that you don’t create secret names ending with a hyphen followed by six characters.
If you specify an incomplete ARN without the random suffix, and instead provide the 'friendly name', you must not include the random suffix. If you do include the random suffix added by Secrets Manager, you receive either a ResourceNotFoundException or an AccessDeniedException error, depending on your permissions.
(Optional) Specifies the number of days that Secrets Manager waits
before it can delete the secret. You can't use both this parameter and
the ForceDeleteWithoutRecovery parameter in the same API call.
This value can range from 7 to 30 days. The default value is 30.
(Optional) Specifies that the secret is to be deleted without any
recovery window. You can't use both this parameter and the
RecoveryWindowInDays parameter in the same API call.
An asynchronous background process performs the actual deletion, so there can be a short delay before the operation completes. If you write code to delete and then immediately recreate a secret with the same name, ensure that your code includes appropriate back off and retry logic.
Use this parameter with caution. This parameter causes the operation to
skip the normal waiting period before the permanent deletion that AWS
would normally impose with the RecoveryWindowInDays parameter. If you
delete a secret with the ForceDeleteWithouRecovery parameter, then you
have no opportunity to recover the secret. It is permanently lost.
svc$delete_secret(
SecretId = "string",
RecoveryWindowInDays = 123,
ForceDeleteWithoutRecovery = TRUE|FALSE
)
if (FALSE) {
# The following example shows how to delete a secret. The secret stays in
# your account in a deprecated and inaccessible state until the recovery
# window ends. After the date and time in the DeletionDate response field
# has passed, you can no longer recover this secret with restore-secret.
svc$delete_secret(
RecoveryWindowInDays = 7L,
SecretId = "MyTestDatabaseSecret1"
)
}
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