create-group

Creates a new group.

For information about the number of groups you can create, refer to Limitations on IAM Entities in the IAM User Guide.

Refer to AWS API Documentation.

Refer to AWS help for descriptions of global parameters.

Synopsis

create-group
  [--path <value>]
  --group-name <value>

Options

--path (string)

The path to the group. For more information about paths, refer to the AWS IAM Identifiers documentation.

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 marks, digits, and upper- and lower-case letters.

--group-name (string)

The name of the group to create. Do not include the path in this value.

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”.

Refer to AWS help for descriptions of global parameters.

Examples

To create an IAM group

The following create-group command creates an IAM group named Admins

aws iam create-group --group-name Admins

Output example:

{
    "Group": {
        "Path": "/",
        "CreateDate": "2015-03-09T20:30:24.940Z",
        "GroupId": "AIDGPMS9RO4H3FEXAMPLE",
        "Arn": "arn:aws:iam::123456789012:group/Admins",
        "GroupName": "Admins"
    }
}

For more information, refer to Creating IAM Groups in the Using IAM guide.

Output

Group -> (structure)

A structure containing details about the new group.

Path -> (string)

The path to the group. For more information about paths, refer to the AWS IAM Identifiers documentation.

GroupName -> (string)

The friendly name that identifies the group.

GroupId -> (string)

The stable and unique string identifying the group. For more information about IDs, refer to the AWS IAM Identifiers documentation.

Arn -> (string)

The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) specifying the group. For more information about ARNs and how to use them in policies, refer to the AWS IAM Identifiers documentation.

CreateDate -> (timestamp)

The date and time, in ISO 8601 date-time format, when the group was created.