<p>Used by workers to tell the service that the <a>ActivityTask</a> identified by the <code>taskToken</code> has failed with <code>reason</code> (if specified). The <code>reason</code> and <code>details</code> appear in the <code>ActivityTaskFailed</code> event added to the workflow history.</p> <p>A task is considered open from the time that it is scheduled until it is closed. Therefore a task is reported as open while a worker is processing it. A task is closed after it has been specified in a call to <a>RespondActivityTaskCompleted</a>, <a>RespondActivityTaskCanceled</a>, RespondActivityTaskFailed, or the task has <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazonswf/latest/developerguide/swf-dg-basic.html#swf-dev-timeout-types">timed out</a>.</p> <p> <b>Access Control</b> </p> <p>You can use IAM policies to control this action's access to Amazon SWF resources as follows:</p> <ul> <li> <p>Use a <code>Resource</code> element with the domain name to limit the action to only specified domains.</p> </li> <li> <p>Use an <code>Action</code> element to allow or deny permission to call this action.</p> </li> <li> <p>You cannot use an IAM policy to constrain this action's parameters.</p> </li> </ul> <p>If the caller doesn't have sufficient permissions to invoke the action, or the parameter values fall outside the specified constraints, the action fails. The associated event attribute's <code>cause</code> parameter is set to <code>OPERATION_NOT_PERMITTED</code>. For details and example IAM policies, see <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazonswf/latest/developerguide/swf-dev-iam.html">Using IAM to Manage Access to Amazon SWF Workflows</a> in the <i>Amazon SWF Developer Guide</i>.</p>

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