list-policy-versions¶

Description¶

Lists information about the versions of the specified managed policy, including the version that is currently set as the policy’s default version.

For more information about managed policies, see Managed Policies and Inline Policies in the IAM User Guide .

Synopsis¶

  list-policy-versions
--policy-arn <value>
[--max-items <value>]
[--cli-input-json | --cli-input-yaml]
[--starting-token <value>]
[--page-size <value>]
[--generate-cli-skeleton <value>]

Options¶

--policy-arn (string)

The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the IAM policy for which you want the versions.

For more information about ARNs, see Amazon Resource Names (ARNs) and AWS Service Namespaces in the AWS General Reference .

--max-items (integer)

The total number of items to return in the command’s output. If the total number of items available is more than the value specified, a NextToken is provided in the command’s output. To resume pagination, provide the NextToken value in the starting-token argument of a subsequent command. Do not use the NextToken response element directly outside of the AWS CLI.

For usage examples, see Pagination in the AWS Command Line Interface User Guide .

--cli-input-json | --cli-input-yaml (string) Reads arguments from the JSON string provided. The JSON string follows the format provided by --generate-cli-skeleton. If other arguments are provided on the command line, those values will override the JSON-provided values. It is not possible to pass arbitrary binary values using a JSON-provided value as the string will be taken literally. This may not be specified along with --cli-input-yaml.

--starting-token (string)

A token to specify where to start paginating. This is the NextToken from a previously truncated response.

For usage examples, see Pagination in the AWS Command Line Interface User Guide .

--page-size (integer)

The size of each page to get in the AWS service call. This does not affect the number of items returned in the command’s output. Setting a smaller page size results in more calls to the AWS service, retrieving fewer items in each call. This can help prevent the AWS service calls from timing out.

For usage examples, see Pagination in the AWS Command Line Interface User Guide .

--generate-cli-skeleton (string) Prints a JSON skeleton to standard output without sending an API request. If provided with no value or the value input, prints a sample input JSON that can be used as an argument for --cli-input-json. Similarly, if provided yaml-input it will print a sample input YAML that can be used with --cli-input-yaml. If provided with the value output, it validates the command inputs and returns a sample output JSON for that command.

See ‘aws help’ for descriptions of global parameters.

Examples¶

To list information about the versions of the specified managed policy

This example returns the list of available versions of the policy whose ARN is arn:aws:iam::123456789012:policy/MySamplePolicy:

aws iam list-policy-versions --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::123456789012:policy/MySamplePolicy

Output:

{
  "IsTruncated": false,
  "Versions": [
    {
      "CreateDate": "2015-06-02T23:19:44Z",
      "VersionId": "v2",
      "IsDefaultVersion": true
    },
    {
      "CreateDate": "2015-06-02T22:30:47Z",
      "VersionId": "v1",
      "IsDefaultVersion": false
    }
  ]
}

For more information, see Overview of IAM Policies in the Using IAM guide.

Output¶

Versions -> (list)

A list of policy versions.

For more information about managed policy versions, see Versioning for Managed Policies in the IAM User Guide .

(structure)

Contains information about a version of a managed policy.

This data type is used as a response element in the CreatePolicyVersion , GetPolicyVersion , ListPolicyVersions , and GetAccountAuthorizationDetails operations.

For more information about managed policies, refer to Managed Policies and Inline Policies in the IAM User Guide .

Document -> (string)

The policy document.

The policy document is returned in the response to the GetPolicyVersion and GetAccountAuthorizationDetails operations. It is not returned in the response to the CreatePolicyVersion or ListPolicyVersions operations.

The policy document returned in this structure is URL-encoded compliant with RFC 3986 . You can use a URL decoding method to convert the policy back to plain JSON text. For example, if you use Java, you can use the decode method of the java.net.URLDecoder utility class in the Java SDK. Other languages and SDKs provide similar functionality.

VersionId -> (string)

The identifier for the policy version.

Policy version identifiers always begin with v (always lowercase). When a policy is created, the first policy version is v1 .

IsDefaultVersion -> (boolean)

Specifies whether the policy version is set as the policy’s default version.

CreateDate -> (timestamp)

The date and time, in ISO 8601 date-time format , when the policy version was created.

IsTruncated -> (boolean)

A flag that indicates whether there are more items to return. If your results were truncated, you can make a subsequent pagination request using the Marker request parameter to retrieve more items. Note that IAM might return fewer than the MaxItems number of results even when there are more results available. We recommend that you check IsTruncated after every call to ensure that you receive all your results.

Marker -> (string)

When IsTruncated is true , this element is present and contains the value to use for the Marker parameter in a subsequent pagination request.

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