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[ aws . cognito-idp ]

create-group

Description

Creates a new group in the specified user pool. For more information about user pool groups see Adding groups to a user pool .

Note

Amazon Cognito evaluates Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies in requests for this API operation. For this operation, you must use IAM credentials to authorize requests, and you must grant yourself the corresponding IAM permission in a policy.

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See also: AWS API Documentation

Synopsis

  create-group
--group-name <value>
--user-pool-id <value>
[--description <value>]
[--role-arn <value>]
[--precedence <value>]
[--cli-input-json <value>]
[--generate-cli-skeleton <value>]
[--debug]
[--endpoint-url <value>]
[--no-verify-ssl]
[--no-paginate]
[--output <value>]
[--query <value>]
[--profile <value>]
[--region <value>]
[--version <value>]
[--color <value>]
[--no-sign-request]
[--ca-bundle <value>]
[--cli-read-timeout <value>]
[--cli-connect-timeout <value>]

Options

--group-name (string)

A name for the group. This name must be unique in your user pool.

--user-pool-id (string)

The ID of the user pool where you want to create a user group.

--description (string)

A description of the group that you're creating.

--role-arn (string)

The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) for the IAM role that you want to associate with the group. A group role primarily declares a preferred role for the credentials that you get from an identity pool. Amazon Cognito ID tokens have a cognito:preferred_role claim that presents the highest-precedence group that a user belongs to. Both ID and access tokens also contain a cognito:groups claim that list all the groups that a user is a member of.

--precedence (integer)

A non-negative integer value that specifies the precedence of this group relative to the other groups that a user can belong to in the user pool. Zero is the highest precedence value. Groups with lower Precedence values take precedence over groups with higher or null Precedence values. If a user belongs to two or more groups, it is the group with the lowest precedence value whose role ARN is given in the user's tokens for the cognito:roles and cognito:preferred_role claims.

Two groups can have the same Precedence value. If this happens, neither group takes precedence over the other. If two groups with the same Precedence have the same role ARN, that role is used in the cognito:preferred_role claim in tokens for users in each group. If the two groups have different role ARNs, the cognito:preferred_role claim isn't set in users' tokens.

The default Precedence value is null. The maximum Precedence value is 2^31-1 .

--cli-input-json (string) Performs service operation based on the JSON string provided. The JSON string follows the format provided by --generate-cli-skeleton. If other arguments are provided on the command line, the CLI values will override the JSON-provided values. It is not possible to pass arbitrary binary values using a JSON-provided value as the string will be taken literally.

--generate-cli-skeleton (string) Prints a JSON skeleton to standard output without sending an API request. If provided with no value or the value input, prints a sample input JSON that can be used as an argument for --cli-input-json. If provided with the value output, it validates the command inputs and returns a sample output JSON for that command.

Global Options

--debug (boolean)

Turn on debug logging.

--endpoint-url (string)

Override command's default URL with the given URL.

--no-verify-ssl (boolean)

By default, the AWS CLI uses SSL when communicating with AWS services. For each SSL connection, the AWS CLI will verify SSL certificates. This option overrides the default behavior of verifying SSL certificates.

--no-paginate (boolean)

Disable automatic pagination. If automatic pagination is disabled, the AWS CLI will only make one call, for the first page of results.

--output (string)

The formatting style for command output.

  • json
  • text
  • table

--query (string)

A JMESPath query to use in filtering the response data.

--profile (string)

Use a specific profile from your credential file.

--region (string)

The region to use. Overrides config/env settings.

--version (string)

Display the version of this tool.

--color (string)

Turn on/off color output.

  • on
  • off
  • auto

--no-sign-request (boolean)

Do not sign requests. Credentials will not be loaded if this argument is provided.

--ca-bundle (string)

The CA certificate bundle to use when verifying SSL certificates. Overrides config/env settings.

--cli-read-timeout (int)

The maximum socket read time in seconds. If the value is set to 0, the socket read will be blocking and not timeout. The default value is 60 seconds.

--cli-connect-timeout (int)

The maximum socket connect time in seconds. If the value is set to 0, the socket connect will be blocking and not timeout. The default value is 60 seconds.

Examples

Note

To use the following examples, you must have the AWS CLI installed and configured. See the Getting started guide in the AWS CLI User Guide for more information.

Unless otherwise stated, all examples have unix-like quotation rules. These examples will need to be adapted to your terminal's quoting rules. See Using quotation marks with strings in the AWS CLI User Guide .

To create a group

This example creates a group with a description.

Command:

aws cognito-idp create-group --user-pool-id us-west-2_aaaaaaaaa --group-name MyNewGroup --description "New group."

Output:

{
  "Group": {
      "GroupName": "MyNewGroup",
      "UserPoolId": "us-west-2_aaaaaaaaa",
      "Description": "New group.",
      "LastModifiedDate": 1548270073.795,
      "CreationDate": 1548270073.795
  }
}

To create a group with a role and precedence

This example creates a group with a description. It also includes a role and precedence.

Command:

aws cognito-idp create-group --user-pool-id us-west-2_aaaaaaaaa --group-name MyNewGroupWithRole --description "New group with a role." --role-arn arn:aws:iam::111111111111:role/MyNewGroupRole --precedence 2

Output:

{
  "Group": {
      "GroupName": "MyNewGroupWithRole",
      "UserPoolId": "us-west-2_aaaaaaaaa",
      "Description": "New group with a role.",
      "RoleArn": "arn:aws:iam::111111111111:role/MyNewGroupRole",
      "Precedence": 2,
      "LastModifiedDate": 1548270211.761,
      "CreationDate": 1548270211.761
  }
}

Output

Group -> (structure)

The response object for a created group.

GroupName -> (string)

The name of the group.

UserPoolId -> (string)

The ID of the user pool that contains the group.

Description -> (string)

A friendly description of the group.

RoleArn -> (string)

The ARN of the IAM role associated with the group. If a group has the highest priority of a user's groups, users who authenticate with an identity pool get credentials for the RoleArn that's associated with the group.

Precedence -> (integer)

A non-negative integer value that specifies the precedence of this group relative to the other groups that a user can belong to in the user pool. Zero is the highest precedence value. Groups with lower Precedence values take precedence over groups with higher ornull Precedence values. If a user belongs to two or more groups, it is the group with the lowest precedence value whose role ARN is given in the user's tokens for the cognito:roles and cognito:preferred_role claims.

Two groups can have the same Precedence value. If this happens, neither group takes precedence over the other. If two groups with the same Precedence have the same role ARN, that role is used in the cognito:preferred_role claim in tokens for users in each group. If the two groups have different role ARNs, the cognito:preferred_role claim isn't set in users' tokens.

The default Precedence value is null .

LastModifiedDate -> (timestamp)

The date and time when the item was modified. Amazon Cognito returns this timestamp in UNIX epoch time format. Your SDK might render the output in a human-readable format like ISO 8601 or a Java Date object.

CreationDate -> (timestamp)

The date and time when the item was created. Amazon Cognito returns this timestamp in UNIX epoch time format. Your SDK might render the output in a human-readable format like ISO 8601 or a Java Date object.