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CreateUser

Creates a new IAM user for your AWS account.

Permissions​

ActionDescriptionResource
CreateUserGrants permission to create a new IAM useruser

Request Parameters​

For information about the parameters that are common to all actions, see Common Parameters.

Path

The path for the user name. For more information about paths, see IAM identifiers in the IAM User Guide.

This parameter is optional. If it is not included, it defaults to a slash (/).

This parameter allows (through its regex pattern) 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 ! (\u0021) through the DEL character (\u007F), including most punctuation characters, digits, and upper and lowercased letters.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 512.

Pattern: (\u002F)|(\u002F[\u0021-\u007E]+\u002F)

Required: No

PermissionsBoundary

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. To learn more, see Permissions boundaries for IAM entities in the IAM User Guide.

For more information about policy types, see Policy types in the IAM User Guide.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 20. Maximum length of 2048.

Required: No

UserName

The email of the user to create.

caution

The parameter is called UserName even though it takes an email as a value. This is to preserve the ability to use the AWS SDK and AWS CLI.

IAM user must be unique within the account. Names are not distinguished by case.

Type: String

Pattern: [\w+=,.@-]+

Required: Yes

Response Elements​

The following element is returned by the service.

User

A structure with details about the new IAM user.

Type: User object

Errors​

EntityAlreadyExists

The request was rejected because it attempted to create a resource that already exists.

HTTP Status Code: 409

InvalidInput

The request was rejected because an invalid or out-of-range value was supplied for an input parameter.

HTTP Status Code: 400

LimitExceeded

The request was rejected because it attempted to create resources beyond the current AWS account limits. The error message describes the limit exceeded.

HTTP Status Code: 409

NoSuchEntity

The request was rejected because it referenced a resource entity that does not exist. The error message describes the resource.

HTTP Status Code: 404

ServiceFailure

The request processing has failed because of an unknown error, exception or failure.

HTTP Status Code: 500

Examples​

Example​

This example illustrates one usage of CreateUser.

https://<partition>.iam.astran.io/?Action=CreateUser
&Path=/division_abc/subdivision_xyz/
&UserName=Bob
&Version=2010-05-08
&AUTHPARAMS
<CreateUserResponse xmlns="https://iam.amazonaws.com/doc/2010-05-08/">
  <CreateUserResult>
    <User>
      <Path>/division_abc/subdivision_xyz/</Path>
      <UserName>Bob</UserName>
      <UserId>AIDACKCEVSQ6C2EXAMPLE</UserId>
      <Arn>arn:aws:iam::123456789012:user/division_abc/subdivision_xyz/Bob</Arn>
    </User>
  </CreateUserResult>
  <ResponseMetadata>
    <RequestId>7a62c49f-347e-4fc4-9331-6e8eEXAMPLE</RequestId>
  </ResponseMetadata>
</CreateUserResponse>

See Also​

For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following: