IAM / Client / create_user

create_user#

IAM.Client.create_user(**kwargs)#

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.

Request Syntax

response = client.create_user(
    Path='string',
    UserName='string',
    PermissionsBoundary='string',
    Tags=[
        {
            'Key': 'string',
            'Value': 'string'
        },
    ]
)

Parameters:

Path (string) –
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.
UserName (string) –
[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”.
PermissionsBoundary (string) –
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 Permissions boundaries for IAM entities in the IAM User Guide.

For more information about policy types, see Policy types in the IAM User Guide.
Tags (list) –
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 Tagging IAM resources 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.
- (dict) –
  
  A structure that represents user-provided metadata that can be associated with an IAM resource. For more information about tagging, see Tagging IAM resources in the IAM User Guide.
  - Key (string) – [REQUIRED]
    
    The key name that can be used to look up or retrieve the associated value. For example, Department or Cost Center are common choices.
  - Value (string) – [REQUIRED]
    
    The value associated with this tag. For example, tags with a key name of Department could have values such as Human Resources, Accounting, and Support. Tags with a key name of Cost Center 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 Value 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.

Return type:

dict

Returns:

Response Syntax

{
    'User': {
        'Path': 'string',
        'UserName': 'string',
        'UserId': 'string',
        'Arn': 'string',
        'CreateDate': datetime(2015, 1, 1),
        'PasswordLastUsed': datetime(2015, 1, 1),
        'PermissionsBoundary': {
            'PermissionsBoundaryType': 'PermissionsBoundaryPolicy',
            'PermissionsBoundaryArn': 'string'
        },
        'Tags': [
            {
                'Key': 'string',
                'Value': 'string'
            },
        ]
    }
}

Response Structure

(dict) –

Contains the response to a successful CreateUser request.
- User (dict) –
  
  A structure with details about the new IAM user.
  - Path (string) –
    
    The path to the user. For more information about paths, see IAM identifiers in the IAM User Guide.
    
    The ARN of the policy used to set the permissions boundary for the user.
  - UserName (string) –
    
    The friendly name identifying the user.
  - UserId (string) –
    
    The stable and unique string identifying the user. For more information about IDs, see IAM identifiers in the IAM User Guide.
  - Arn (string) –
    
    The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) that identifies the user. For more information about ARNs and how to use ARNs in policies, see IAM Identifiers in the IAM User Guide.
  - CreateDate (datetime) –
    
    The date and time, in ISO 8601 date-time format, when the user was created.
  - PasswordLastUsed (datetime) –
    
    The date and time, in ISO 8601 date-time format, when the user’s password was last used to sign in to an Amazon Web Services website. For a list of Amazon Web Services websites that capture a user’s last sign-in time, see the Credential reports topic in the IAM User Guide. If a password is used more than once in a five-minute span, only the first use is returned in this field. If the field is null (no value), then it indicates that they never signed in with a password. This can be because:
    - The user never had a password.
    - A password exists but has not been used since IAM started tracking this information on October 20, 2014.
    A null value does not mean that the user never had a password. Also, if the user does not currently have a password but had one in the past, then this field contains the date and time the most recent password was used.
    
    This value is returned only in the GetUser and ListUsers operations.
  - PermissionsBoundary (dict) –
    
    For more information about permissions boundaries, see Permissions boundaries for IAM identities in the IAM User Guide.
    - PermissionsBoundaryType (string) –
      
      The permissions boundary usage type that indicates what type of IAM resource is used as the permissions boundary for an entity. This data type can only have a value of Policy.
    - PermissionsBoundaryArn (string) –
      
      The ARN of the policy used to set the permissions boundary for the user or role.
  - Tags (list) –
    
    A list of tags that are associated with the user. For more information about tagging, see Tagging IAM resources in the IAM User Guide.
    - (dict) –
      
      A structure that represents user-provided metadata that can be associated with an IAM resource. For more information about tagging, see Tagging IAM resources in the IAM User Guide.
      - Key (string) –
        
        The key name that can be used to look up or retrieve the associated value. For example, Department or Cost Center are common choices.
      - Value (string) –
        
        The value associated with this tag. For example, tags with a key name of Department could have values such as Human Resources, Accounting, and Support. Tags with a key name of Cost Center 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 Value 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.

Exceptions

IAM.Client.exceptions.LimitExceededException
IAM.Client.exceptions.EntityAlreadyExistsException
IAM.Client.exceptions.NoSuchEntityException
IAM.Client.exceptions.InvalidInputException
IAM.Client.exceptions.ConcurrentModificationException
IAM.Client.exceptions.ServiceFailureException

Examples

The following create-user command creates an IAM user named Bob in the current account.

response = client.create_user(
    UserName='Bob',
)

print(response)

Expected Output:

{
    'User': {
        'Arn': 'arn:aws:iam::123456789012:user/Bob',
        'CreateDate': datetime(2013, 6, 8, 3, 20, 41, 5, 159, 0),
        'Path': '/',
        'UserId': 'AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE',
        'UserName': 'Bob',
    },
    'ResponseMetadata': {
        '...': '...',
    },
}