# CreateUserGroup
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For Valkey engine version 7.2 onwards and Redis OSS 6.0 to 7.1: Creates a user group. For more information, see [Using Role Based Access Control (RBAC)](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonElastiCache/latest/dg/Clusters.RBAC.html) 

## Request Parameters
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 For information about the parameters that are common to all actions, see [Common Parameters](CommonParameters.md).

 ** Engine **   
Sets the engine listed in a user group. The options are valkey or redis.  
Type: String  
Pattern: `[a-zA-Z]*`   
Required: Yes

 ** UserGroupId **   
The ID of the user group. This value is stored as a lowercase string.  
Type: String  
Required: Yes

 **Tags.Tag.N**   
A list of tags to be added to this resource. A tag is a key-value pair. A tag key must be accompanied by a tag value, although null is accepted. Available for Valkey and Redis OSS only.  
Type: Array of [Tag](API_Tag.md) objects  
Required: No

 **UserIds.member.N**   
The list of user IDs that belong to the user group.  
Type: Array of strings  
Array Members: Minimum number of 1 item.  
Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1.  
Pattern: `[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9\-]*`   
Required: No

## Response Elements
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The following elements are returned by the service.

 ** ARN **   
The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the user group.  
Type: String

 ** Engine **   
The options are valkey or redis.  
Type: String  
Pattern: `[a-zA-Z]*` 

 ** MinimumEngineVersion **   
The minimum engine version required, which is Redis OSS 6.0  
Type: String

 ** PendingChanges **   
A list of updates being applied to the user group.  
Type: [UserGroupPendingChanges](API_UserGroupPendingChanges.md) object

 **ReplicationGroups.member.N**   
A list of replication groups that the user group can access.  
Type: Array of strings

 **ServerlessCaches.member.N**   
Indicates which serverless caches the specified user group is associated with. Available for Valkey, Redis OSS and Serverless Memcached only.  
Type: Array of strings

 ** Status **   
Indicates user group status. Can be "creating", "active", "modifying", "deleting".  
Type: String

 ** UserGroupId **   
The ID of the user group.  
Type: String

 **UserIds.member.N**   
The list of user IDs that belong to the user group.  
Type: Array of strings  
Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1.  
Pattern: `[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9\-]*` 

## Errors
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For information about the errors that are common to all actions, see [Common Error Types](CommonErrors.md).

 ** DefaultUserRequired **   
You must add default user to a user group.  
HTTP Status Code: 400

 ** DuplicateUserName **   
A user with this username already exists.  
HTTP Status Code: 400

 ** InvalidParameterValue **   
The value for a parameter is invalid.    
 ** message **   
A parameter value is invalid.
HTTP Status Code: 400

 ** ServiceLinkedRoleNotFoundFault **   
The specified service linked role (SLR) was not found.  
HTTP Status Code: 400

 ** TagQuotaPerResourceExceeded **   
The request cannot be processed because it would cause the resource to have more than the allowed number of tags. The maximum number of tags permitted on a resource is 50.  
HTTP Status Code: 400

 ** UserGroupAlreadyExists **   
The user group with this ID already exists.  
HTTP Status Code: 400

 ** UserGroupQuotaExceeded **   
The number of users exceeds the user group limit.  
HTTP Status Code: 400

 ** UserNotFound **   
The user does not exist or could not be found.  
HTTP Status Code: 404

## See Also
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For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:
+  [AWS Command Line Interface V2](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/cli2/elasticache-2015-02-02/CreateUserGroup) 
+  [AWS SDK for .NET V4](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/DotNetSDKV4/elasticache-2015-02-02/CreateUserGroup) 
+  [AWS SDK for C\$1\$1](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForCpp/elasticache-2015-02-02/CreateUserGroup) 
+  [AWS SDK for Go v2](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForGoV2/elasticache-2015-02-02/CreateUserGroup) 
+  [AWS SDK for Java V2](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForJavaV2/elasticache-2015-02-02/CreateUserGroup) 
+  [AWS SDK for JavaScript V3](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForJavaScriptV3/elasticache-2015-02-02/CreateUserGroup) 
+  [AWS SDK for Kotlin](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForKotlin/elasticache-2015-02-02/CreateUserGroup) 
+  [AWS SDK for PHP V3](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForPHPV3/elasticache-2015-02-02/CreateUserGroup) 
+  [AWS SDK for Python](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/boto3/elasticache-2015-02-02/CreateUserGroup) 
+  [AWS SDK for Ruby V3](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForRubyV3/elasticache-2015-02-02/CreateUserGroup)