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Retrieves information about the specified IAM user, including the user's creation date, path, unique ID, and ARN.

If you do not specify a user name, IAM determines the user name implicitly based on the Amazon Web Services access key ID used to sign the request to this operation.

get/#Action=GetUser

Query parameters

UserNamestring
<p>The name of the user to get information about.</p> <p>This parameter is optional. If it is not included, it defaults to the user making the request. 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>
Action'GetUser' required
Version'2010-05-08' required

Response

Success