How to delete a key pair using Boto3

Question

Hi Team,

I have created one key pair in AWS using the Boto3 module. Now I want to delete the key pair. How can I do that?

Answer 1

Hi@akhtar,

You can delete a key pair using the Boto3 module. For that, you need to set the AWS credentials first and then you can use the below code.

import boto3
ec2 = boto3.client('ec2')
response = ec2.delete_key_pair(KeyName='KEY_PAIR_NAME')
print(response)