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Service: code-library · 2025-08-01 · Documentation low

File: code-library/latest/ug/ec2_example_ec2_DeleteKeyPair_section.md

Summary

Added Swift SDK example for DeleteKeyPair API

Security assessment

Documents proper credential lifecycle management through key pair deletion, which is a security best practice but does not address a specific active security issue.

Diff

diff --git a/code-library/latest/ug/ec2_example_ec2_DeleteKeyPair_section.md b/code-library/latest/ug/ec2_example_ec2_DeleteKeyPair_section.md
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@@ -589,0 +590,41 @@ There's more on GitHub. Find the complete example and learn how to set up and ru
+Swift
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+**SDK for Swift**
+    
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+###### Note
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+There's more on GitHub. Find the complete example and learn how to set up and run in the [AWS Code Examples Repository](https://github.com/awsdocs/aws-doc-sdk-examples/tree/main/swift/example_code/ec2#code-examples). 
+    
+    
+    import AWSEC2
+    
+        /// Delete an EC2 key pair.
+        /// 
+        /// - Parameter keyPair: The name of the key pair to delete.
+        /// 
+        /// - Returns: `true` if the key pair is deleted successfully; otherwise
+        ///   `false`.
+        func deleteKeyPair(keyPair: String) async -> Bool {
+            do {
+                _ = try await ec2Client.deleteKeyPair(
+                    input: DeleteKeyPairInput(
+                        keyName: keyPair
+                    )
+                )
+    
+                return true
+            } catch {
+                print("*** Error deleting the key pair: \(error.localizedDescription)")
+                return false
+            }
+        }
+    
+    
+
+  * For API details, see [DeleteKeyPair](https://sdk.amazonaws.com/swift/api/awsec2/latest/documentation/awsec2/ec2client/deletekeypair\(input:\)) in _AWS SDK for Swift API reference_. 
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