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View IAM users

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View IAM users - AWS Identity and Access Management

You can list the IAM users in your AWS account or in a specific IAM group, and list all the IAM groups that a user is in. For information about the permissions that you need in order to list users, see Permissions required to access IAM resources.

To list all the IAM users in your account

IAM console
  1. Follow the sign-in procedure appropriate to your user type as described in the topic How to sign in to AWS in the AWS Sign-In User Guide.

  2. On the Console Home page, select the IAM service.

  3. In the navigation pane, choose Users.

The console displays the IAM users in your AWS account.

AWS CLI

Run the following command:

API

Call the following operation:

  1. Follow the sign-in procedure appropriate to your user type as described in the topic How to sign in to AWS in the AWS Sign-In User Guide.

  2. On the Console Home page, select the IAM service.

  3. In the navigation pane, choose Users.

The console displays the IAM users in your AWS account.

To list the IAM users in an IAM group

IAM console
  1. Follow the sign-in procedure appropriate to your user type as described in the topic How to sign in to AWS in the AWS Sign-In User Guide.

  2. On the Console Home page, select the IAM service.

  3. In the navigation pane, choose User groups.

  4. Choose the name of the user group.

The IAM users that are members of the group are listed on the Users tab.

AWS CLI

Run the following command:

API

Call the following operation:

  1. Follow the sign-in procedure appropriate to your user type as described in the topic How to sign in to AWS in the AWS Sign-In User Guide.

  2. On the Console Home page, select the IAM service.

  3. In the navigation pane, choose User groups.

  4. Choose the name of the user group.

The IAM users that are members of the group are listed on the Users tab.

To list all the IAM groups that a user is in

IAM console
  1. Follow the sign-in procedure appropriate to your user type as described in the topic How to sign in to AWS in the AWS Sign-In User Guide.

  2. On the Console Home page, select the IAM service.

  3. In the navigation pane, choose Users.

  4. In the Users list, choose the name of the IAM user.

  5. Select the Groups tab to display the list of groups that include the current user.

AWS CLI

Run the following command:

API

Call the following operation:

  1. Follow the sign-in procedure appropriate to your user type as described in the topic How to sign in to AWS in the AWS Sign-In User Guide.

  2. On the Console Home page, select the IAM service.

  3. In the navigation pane, choose Users.

  4. In the Users list, choose the name of the IAM user.

  5. Select the Groups tab to display the list of groups that include the current user.

Next steps

Once you have a list of your IAM users, you can rename, delete, or deactivate an IAM user using the following procedures.

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