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update_role

Operation

update_role async

update_role(input: UpdateRoleInput, plugins: list[Plugin] | None = None) -> UpdateRoleOutput

Updates the description or maximum session duration setting of a role.

Parameters:

Name Type Description Default
input UpdateRoleInput

An instance of UpdateRoleInput.

required
plugins list[Plugin] | None

A list of callables that modify the configuration dynamically. Changes made by these plugins only apply for the duration of the operation execution and will not affect any other operation invocations.

None

Returns:

Type Description
UpdateRoleOutput

An instance of UpdateRoleOutput.

Input

UpdateRoleInput dataclass

Bases: _SerdeShape

Dataclass for UpdateRoleInput structure.

Attributes

description class-attribute instance-attribute
description: str | None = ...

The new description that you want to apply to the specified role.

max_session_duration class-attribute instance-attribute
max_session_duration: int | None = ...

The maximum session duration (in seconds) that you want to set for the specified role. If you do not specify a value for this setting, the default value of one hour is applied. This setting can have a value from 1 hour to 12 hours.

Anyone who assumes the role from the CLI or API can use the DurationSeconds API parameter or the duration-seconds CLI parameter to request a longer session. The MaxSessionDuration setting determines the maximum duration that can be requested using the DurationSeconds parameter. If users don't specify a value for the DurationSeconds parameter, their security credentials are valid for one hour by default. This applies when you use the AssumeRole* API operations or the assume-role* CLI operations but does not apply when you use those operations to create a console URL. For more information, see Using IAM roles in the IAM User Guide.

Note

IAM role credentials provided by Amazon EC2 instances assigned to the role are not subject to the specified maximum session duration.

role_name class-attribute instance-attribute
role_name: str | None = ...

The name of the role that you want to modify.

Output

UpdateRoleOutput dataclass

Bases: _SerdeShape

Dataclass for UpdateRoleOutput structure.

Attributes

response_metadata class-attribute instance-attribute
response_metadata: ResponseMetadata = ...

Metadata about the response that produced this output. Use this to recover the request identifiers a service's support team needs in order to investigate a call. Members of the metadata are individually optional.