Get actioncreateuser — iam

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Creates a new IAM user for your Amazon Web Services account.

For information about quotas for the number of IAM users you can create, see IAM and STS quotas in the IAM User Guide.

get/#Action=CreateUser

Query parameters

Pathstring

The path for the user name. For more information about paths, see <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/Using_Identifiers.html">IAM identifiers</a> in the IAM User Guide. This parameter is optional. If it is not included, it defaults to a slash (/). 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.

UserNamestring required

The name of the user to create. IAM user, group, role, and policy names must be unique within the account. Names are not distinguished by case. For example, you cannot create resources named both "MyResource" and "myresource".

PermissionsBoundarystring

The Amazon Resource Name (ARN). ARNs are unique identifiers for Amazon Web Services resources. For more information about ARNs, go to <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/aws-arns-and-namespaces.html">Amazon Resource Names (ARNs)</a> in the Amazon Web Services General Reference.

The ARN of the managed policy that is used to set the permissions boundary for the user. A permissions boundary policy defines the maximum permissions that identity-based policies can grant to an entity, but does not grant permissions. Permissions boundaries do not define the maximum permissions that a resource-based policy can grant to an entity. To learn more, see <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/access_policies_boundaries.html">Permissions boundaries for IAM entities</a> in the IAM User Guide. For more information about policy types, see <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/access_policies.html#access_policy-types">Policy types </a> in the IAM User Guide.

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

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. <note> 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. </note>

A list of tags that you want to attach to the new user. 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 IAM User Guide. <note> 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. </note>

Action'CreateUser' required

Version'2010-05-08' required

Response

Success