# DeleteServiceSpecificCredential
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Deletes the specified service-specific credential.

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

 ** ServiceSpecificCredentialId **   
The unique identifier of the service-specific credential. You can get this value by calling [ListServiceSpecificCredentials](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/APIReference/API_ListServiceSpecificCredentials.html).  
This parameter allows (through its [regex pattern](http://wikipedia.org/wiki/regex)) a string of characters that can consist of any upper or lowercased letter or digit.  
Type: String  
Length Constraints: Minimum length of 20. Maximum length of 128.  
Pattern: `[\w]+`   
Required: Yes

 ** UserName **   
The name of the IAM user associated with the service-specific credential. If this value is not specified, then the operation assumes the user whose credentials are used to call the operation.  
This parameter allows (through its [regex pattern](http://wikipedia.org/wiki/regex)) a string of characters consisting of upper and lowercase alphanumeric characters with no spaces. You can also include any of the following characters: \$1\$1=,.@-  
Type: String  
Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 64.  
Pattern: `[\w+=,.@-]+`   
Required: No

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

 ** NoSuchEntity **   
The request was rejected because it referenced a resource entity that does not exist. The error message describes the resource.  
HTTP Status Code: 404

## Examples
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### Example
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The following example shows how to delete a service-specific credential associated with the user named Juan. If Juan's IAM access keys are used to make the call, then he does not need to include the `UserName` parameter.

#### Sample Request
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```
https://iam.amazonaws.com/?Action=DeleteServiceSpecificCredential
&ServiceSpecificCredentialId=ACCA12345ABCDEXAMPLE
&UserName=Juan
&Version=2010-05-08
&AUTHPARAMS
```

#### Sample Response
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```
<DeleteServiceSpecificCredentialResponse xmlns="https://iam.amazonaws.com/doc/2010-05-08/">
  <ResponseMetadata>
    <RequestId>EXAMPLE8-90ab-cdef-fedc-ba987EXAMPLE</RequestId>
  </ResponseMetadata>
</DeleteServiceSpecificCredentialResponse>
```

## 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/iam-2010-05-08/DeleteServiceSpecificCredential) 
+  [AWS SDK for .NET V4](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/DotNetSDKV4/iam-2010-05-08/DeleteServiceSpecificCredential) 
+  [AWS SDK for C\$1\$1](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForCpp/iam-2010-05-08/DeleteServiceSpecificCredential) 
+  [AWS SDK for Go v2](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForGoV2/iam-2010-05-08/DeleteServiceSpecificCredential) 
+  [AWS SDK for Java V2](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForJavaV2/iam-2010-05-08/DeleteServiceSpecificCredential) 
+  [AWS SDK for JavaScript V3](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForJavaScriptV3/iam-2010-05-08/DeleteServiceSpecificCredential) 
+  [AWS SDK for Kotlin](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForKotlin/iam-2010-05-08/DeleteServiceSpecificCredential) 
+  [AWS SDK for PHP V3](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForPHPV3/iam-2010-05-08/DeleteServiceSpecificCredential) 
+  [AWS SDK for Python](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/boto3/iam-2010-05-08/DeleteServiceSpecificCredential) 
+  [AWS SDK for Ruby V3](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForRubyV3/iam-2010-05-08/DeleteServiceSpecificCredential)