AmazonIdentityManagementServiceClient.CreateRole Method (CreateRoleRequest)

Creates a new role for your Amazon Web Services account.

For more information about roles, see IAM roles in the IAM User Guide. For information about quotas for role names and the number of roles you can create, see IAM and STS quotas in the IAM User Guide.

Note:

For .NET Core this operation is only available in asynchronous form. Please refer to CreateRoleAsync.

Namespace: Amazon.IdentityManagement
Assembly: AWSSDK.IdentityManagement.dll
Version: 3.x.y.z

Syntax

public virtual CreateRoleResponse CreateRole(
         CreateRoleRequest request
)

Parameters

request: Type: Amazon.IdentityManagement.Model.CreateRoleRequest

Container for the necessary parameters to execute the CreateRole service method.

Return Value

Type: CreateRoleResponse

The response from the CreateRole service method, as returned by IdentityManagementService.

Exceptions

Exception	Condition
ConcurrentModificationException	The request was rejected because multiple requests to change this object were submitted simultaneously. Wait a few minutes and submit your request again.
EntityAlreadyExistsException	The request was rejected because it attempted to create a resource that already exists.
InvalidInputException	The request was rejected because an invalid or out-of-range value was supplied for an input parameter.
LimitExceededException	The request was rejected because it attempted to create resources beyond the current Amazon Web Services account limits. The error message describes the limit exceeded.
MalformedPolicyDocumentException	The request was rejected because the policy document was malformed. The error message describes the specific error.
ServiceFailureException	The request processing has failed because of an unknown error, exception or failure.

Examples

The following command creates a role named Test-Role and attaches a trust policy that you must convert from JSON to a string. Upon success, the response includes the same policy as a URL-encoded JSON string.

To create an IAM role


var client = new AmazonIdentityManagementServiceClient();
var response = client.CreateRole(new CreateRoleRequest 
{
    AssumeRolePolicyDocument = "<Stringified-JSON>",
    Path = "/",
    RoleName = "Test-Role"
});

Role role = response.Role;

Version Information

.NET Framework:
Supported in: 4.5 and newer, 3.5

AmazonIdentityManagementServiceClient.CreateRole (CreateRoleRequest)

Method