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Deletes a state machine

Description

Deletes a state machine. This is an asynchronous operation. It sets the state machine's status to DELETING and begins the deletion process. A state machine is deleted only when all its executions are completed. On the next state transition, the state machine's executions are terminated.

A qualified state machine ARN can either refer to a Distributed Map state defined within a state machine, a version ARN, or an alias ARN.

The following are some examples of qualified and unqualified state machine ARNs:

  • The following qualified state machine ARN refers to a Distributed Map state with a label mapStateLabel in a state machine named myStateMachine.

    arn:partition:states:region:account-id:stateMachine:myStateMachine/mapStateLabel

    If you provide a qualified state machine ARN that refers to a Distributed Map state, the request fails with ValidationException.

  • The following unqualified state machine ARN refers to a state machine named myStateMachine.

    arn:partition:states:region:account-id:stateMachine:myStateMachine

This API action also deletes all versions and aliases associated with a state machine.

For EXPRESS state machines, the deletion happens eventually (usually in less than a minute). Running executions may emit logs after delete_state_machine API is called.

Usage

sfn_delete_state_machine(stateMachineArn)

Arguments

  • stateMachineArn

    [required] The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the state machine to delete.

Value

An empty list.

Request syntax

svc$delete_state_machine(
  stateMachineArn = "string"
)