**To delete a policy**

The following ``delete-policy`` example deletes the specified policy from your AWS account. ::

    aws iot delete-policy --policy-name UpdateDeviceCertPolicy

This command produces no output.

For more information, see `AWS IoT Policies <https://docs.aws.amazon.com/iot/latest/developerguide/iot-policies.html>`__ in the *AWS IoT Developers Guide*.
