attach-group-policy

Attaches the specified managed policy to the specified IAM group.

You use this API to attach a managed policy to a group. To embed an inline policy in a group, use PutGroupPolicy.

For more information about policies, refer to Managed Policies and Inline Policies in the IAM User Guide.

Refer to AWS API Documentation.

Refer to AWS help for descriptions of global parameters.

Synopsis

attach-group-policy
  --group-name <value>
  --policy-arn <value>

Options

--group-name (string)

The name (friendly name, not ARN) of the group to attach the policy to.

This parameter allows (through its regex pattern) a string of characters consisting of upper and lowercase alphanumeric characters with no spaces. You can also include any of the following characters: _, +, =, ,, ., @, and -.

--policy-arn (string)

The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the IAM policy you want to attach.

For more information about ARNs, refer to Amazon Resource Names (ARNs) and AWS Service Namespaces in the AWS General Reference.

Examples

To attach a managed policy to an IAM group

The following attach-group-policy command attaches the AWS managed policy named ReadOnlyAccess to the IAM group named Finance

aws iam attach-group-policy --policy-arn \
arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/ReadOnlyAccess --group-name Finance

For more information, refer to Managed Policies and Inline Policies in the Using IAM guide.

Output

None