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Creates a new instance profile. For information about instance profiles, see Using roles for applications on Amazon EC2 in the IAM User Guide, and Instance profiles in the Amazon EC2 User Guide.

For information about the number of instance profiles you can create, see IAM object quotas in the IAM User Guide.

get/#Action=CreateInstanceProfile

Query parameters

InstanceProfileNamestring required
<p>The name of the instance profile to create.</p> <p>This parameter allows (through its <a href="http://wikipedia.org/wiki/regex">regex pattern</a>) a string of characters consisting of upper and lowercase alphanumeric characters with no spaces. You can also include any of the following characters: _+=,.@-</p>
Pathstring
<p> The path to the instance profile. For more information about paths, see <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/Using_Identifiers.html">IAM Identifiers</a> in the <i>IAM User Guide</i>.</p> <p>This parameter is optional. If it is not included, it defaults to a slash (/).</p> <p>This parameter allows (through its <a href="http://wikipedia.org/wiki/regex">regex pattern</a>) a string of characters consisting of either a forward slash (/) by itself or a string that must begin and end with forward slashes. In addition, it can contain any ASCII character from the ! (<code>\u0021</code>) through the DEL character (<code>\u007F</code>), including most punctuation characters, digits, and upper and lowercased letters.</p>
Keystring required

The key name that can be used to look up or retrieve the associated value. For example, <code>Department</code> or <code>Cost Center</code> are common choices.

Valuestring required
<p>The value associated with this tag. For example, tags with a key name of <code>Department</code> could have values such as <code>Human Resources</code>, <code>Accounting</code>, and <code>Support</code>. Tags with a key name of <code>Cost Center</code> might have values that consist of the number associated with the different cost centers in your company. Typically, many resources have tags with the same key name but with different values.</p> <note> <p>Amazon Web Services always interprets the tag <code>Value</code> as a single string. If you need to store an array, you can store comma-separated values in the string. However, you must interpret the value in your code.</p> </note>
<p>A list of tags that you want to attach to the newly created IAM instance profile. Each tag consists of a key name and an associated value. For more information about tagging, see <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/id_tags.html">Tagging IAM resources</a> in the <i>IAM User Guide</i>.</p> <note> <p>If any one of the tags is invalid or if you exceed the allowed maximum number of tags, then the entire request fails and the resource is not created.</p> </note>
Action'CreateInstanceProfile' required
Version'2010-05-08' required

Response

Success