# DeleteContact
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**Important**  
 AWS Systems Manager Incident Manager is no longer open to new customers. Existing customers can continue to use the service as normal. For more information, see [Incident Manager availability change](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/incident-manager/latest/userguide/incident-manager-availability-change.html).

To remove a contact from Incident Manager, you can delete the contact. However, deleting a contact does not remove it from escalation plans and related response plans. Deleting an escalation plan also does not remove it from all related response plans. To modify an escalation plan, we recommend using the [UpdateContact](API_SSMContacts_UpdateContact.md) action to specify a different existing contact.

## Request Syntax
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```
{
   "ContactId": "string"
}
```

## Request Parameters
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For information about the parameters that are common to all actions, see [Common Parameters](CommonParameters.md).

The request accepts the following data in JSON format.

 ** [ContactId](#API_SSMContacts_DeleteContact_RequestSyntax) **   <a name="IncidentManager-SSMContacts_DeleteContact-request-ContactId"></a>
The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the contact that you're deleting.  
Type: String  
Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 2048.  
Pattern: `arn:(aws|aws-cn|aws-us-gov):ssm-contacts:[-\w+=\/,.@]*:[0-9]+:([\w+=\/,.@:-])*`   
Required: Yes

## Response Elements
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If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 200 response with an empty HTTP body.

## Errors
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For information about the errors that are common to all actions, see [Common Error Types](CommonErrors.md).

 ** AccessDeniedException **   
You don't have sufficient access to perform this operation.  
HTTP Status Code: 400

 ** ConflictException **   
Updating or deleting a resource causes an inconsistent state.  
HTTP Status Code: 400

 ** InternalServerException **   
Unexpected error occurred while processing the request.  
HTTP Status Code: 500

 ** ResourceNotFoundException **   
Request references a resource that doesn't exist.  
HTTP Status Code: 400

 ** ThrottlingException **   
The request was denied due to request throttling.  
HTTP Status Code: 400

 ** ValidationException **   
The input fails to satisfy the constraints specified by an AWS service.  
HTTP Status Code: 400

## Examples
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### Example
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This example illustrates one usage of DeleteContact.

#### Sample Request
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```
POST / HTTP/1.1
Host: ssm-contacts.us-east-2.amazonaws.com
Accept-Encoding: identity
X-Amz-Target: SSMContacts.DeleteContact
Content-Type: application/x-amz-json-1.1
User-Agent: aws-cli/2.2.4 Python/3.8.8 Linux/5.4.129-72.229.amzn2int.x86_64 exe/x86_64.amzn.2 prompt/off command/ssm-contacts.delete-contact
X-Amz-Date: 20220817T184920Z
Authorization: AWS4-HMAC-SHA256 Credential=AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE/20220817/us-east-2/ssm-contacts/aws4_request, SignedHeaders=content-type;host;x-amz-date;x-amz-target, Signature=39c3b3042cd2aEXAMPLE
Content-Length: 74

{
	"ContactId": "arn:aws:ssm-contacts:us-east-2:111122223333:contact/akuam"
}
```

#### Sample Response
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```
{}
```

## See Also
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For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:
+  [AWS Command Line Interface V2](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/cli2/ssm-contacts-2021-05-03/DeleteContact) 
+  [AWS SDK for .NET V4](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/DotNetSDKV4/ssm-contacts-2021-05-03/DeleteContact) 
+  [AWS SDK for C\$1\$1](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForCpp/ssm-contacts-2021-05-03/DeleteContact) 
+  [AWS SDK for Go v2](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForGoV2/ssm-contacts-2021-05-03/DeleteContact) 
+  [AWS SDK for Java V2](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForJavaV2/ssm-contacts-2021-05-03/DeleteContact) 
+  [AWS SDK for JavaScript V3](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForJavaScriptV3/ssm-contacts-2021-05-03/DeleteContact) 
+  [AWS SDK for Kotlin](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForKotlin/ssm-contacts-2021-05-03/DeleteContact) 
+  [AWS SDK for PHP V3](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForPHPV3/ssm-contacts-2021-05-03/DeleteContact) 
+  [AWS SDK for Python](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/boto3/ssm-contacts-2021-05-03/DeleteContact) 
+  [AWS SDK for Ruby V3](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForRubyV3/ssm-contacts-2021-05-03/DeleteContact)