# InviteMembers
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**Note**  
We recommend using AWS Organizations instead of Security Hub CSPM invitations to manage your member accounts. For information, see [Managing Security Hub CSPM administrator and member accounts with Organizations](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/securityhub/latest/userguide/securityhub-accounts-orgs.html) in the * AWS Security Hub CSPM User Guide*.

Invites other AWS accounts to become member accounts for the Security Hub CSPM administrator account that the invitation is sent from.

This operation is only used to invite accounts that don't belong to an AWS organization. Organization accounts don't receive invitations.

Before you can use this action to invite a member, you must first use the `CreateMembers` action to create the member account in Security Hub CSPM.

When the account owner enables Security Hub CSPM and accepts the invitation to become a member account, the administrator account can view the findings generated in the member account.

## Request Syntax
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```
POST /members/invite HTTP/1.1
Content-type: application/json

{
   "AccountIds": [ "string" ]
}
```

## URI Request Parameters
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The request does not use any URI parameters.

## Request Body
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The request accepts the following data in JSON format.

 ** [AccountIds](#API_InviteMembers_RequestSyntax) **   <a name="securityhub-InviteMembers-request-AccountIds"></a>
The list of account IDs of the AWS accounts to invite to Security Hub CSPM as members.   
Type: Array of strings  
Pattern: `.*\S.*`   
Required: Yes

## Response Syntax
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```
HTTP/1.1 200
Content-type: application/json

{
   "UnprocessedAccounts": [ 
      { 
         "AccountId": "string",
         "ProcessingResult": "string"
      }
   ]
}
```

## Response Elements
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If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 200 response.

The following data is returned in JSON format by the service.

 ** [UnprocessedAccounts](#API_InviteMembers_ResponseSyntax) **   <a name="securityhub-InviteMembers-response-UnprocessedAccounts"></a>
The list of AWS accounts that could not be processed. For each account, the list includes the account ID and the email address.  
Type: Array of [Result](API_Result.md) objects

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

 ** InternalException **   
Internal server error.  
HTTP Status Code: 500

 ** InvalidAccessException **   
The account doesn't have permission to perform this action.  
HTTP Status Code: 401

 ** InvalidInputException **   
The request was rejected because you supplied an invalid or out-of-range value for an input parameter.  
HTTP Status Code: 400

 ** LimitExceededException **   
The request was rejected because it attempted to create resources beyond the current AWS account or throttling limits. The error code describes the limit exceeded.  
HTTP Status Code: 429

 ** ResourceNotFoundException **   
The request was rejected because we can't find the specified resource.  
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/securityhub-2018-10-26/InviteMembers) 
+  [AWS SDK for .NET V4](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/DotNetSDKV4/securityhub-2018-10-26/InviteMembers) 
+  [AWS SDK for C\$1\$1](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForCpp/securityhub-2018-10-26/InviteMembers) 
+  [AWS SDK for Go v2](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForGoV2/securityhub-2018-10-26/InviteMembers) 
+  [AWS SDK for Java V2](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForJavaV2/securityhub-2018-10-26/InviteMembers) 
+  [AWS SDK for JavaScript V3](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForJavaScriptV3/securityhub-2018-10-26/InviteMembers) 
+  [AWS SDK for Kotlin](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForKotlin/securityhub-2018-10-26/InviteMembers) 
+  [AWS SDK for PHP V3](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForPHPV3/securityhub-2018-10-26/InviteMembers) 
+  [AWS SDK for Python](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/boto3/securityhub-2018-10-26/InviteMembers) 
+  [AWS SDK for Ruby V3](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForRubyV3/securityhub-2018-10-26/InviteMembers)