Is that possible to delete a managed policy in AWS IAM from my account?

Question

In web console of AWS IAM policies, the option "Delete" out of the "Action" drop down menu is disabled when selecting any managed policy.

In CLI, when trying to delete a managed policy, I got:

$ aws iam delete-policy --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/service-role/AWSQuickSightElasticsearchPolicy

An error occurred (AccessDenied) when calling the DeletePolicy operation: Cannot delete policies outside your own account.

the simple question: is that possible to remove any managed policy from my account? If yes, how?

Answer 1

No, you cannot delete IAM policies that are managed by AWS. The policy in your example seems to be the one managed by AWS and hence cannot be deleted. You can however delete customer managed IAM policies if you have appropriate permission to do so.

Ref: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/access_policies_manage-delete.html#:~:text=You%20cannot%20delete%20AWS%20managed%20policies