<p>Deletes the specified role. Unlike the Amazon Web Services Management Console, when you delete a role programmatically, you must delete the items attached to the role manually, or the deletion fails. For more information, see <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/id_roles_manage_delete.html#roles-managingrole-deleting-cli">Deleting an IAM role</a>. Before attempting to delete a role, remove the following attached items: </p> <ul> <li> <p>Inline policies (<a>DeleteRolePolicy</a>)</p> </li> <li> <p>Attached managed policies (<a>DetachRolePolicy</a>)</p> </li> <li> <p>Instance profile (<a>RemoveRoleFromInstanceProfile</a>)</p> </li> <li> <p>Optional – Delete instance profile after detaching from role for resource clean up (<a>DeleteInstanceProfile</a>)</p> </li> </ul> <important> <p>Make sure that you do not have any Amazon EC2 instances running with the role you are about to delete. Deleting a role or instance profile that is associated with a running instance will break any applications running on the instance.</p> </important>

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