GET

/#Action=AttachUserPolicy

https://iam.amazonaws.com/#Action=AttachUserPolicy

Attaches the specified managed policy to the specified user. You use this operation to attach a managed policy to a user. To embed an inline policy in a user, use <a>PutUserPolicy</a>. As a best practice, you can validate your IAM policies. To learn more, see <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/access_policies_policy-validator.html">Validating IAM policies</a> in the IAM User Guide. For more information about policies, see <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/policies-managed-vs-inline.html">Managed policies and inline policies</a> in the IAM User Guide.

Access Token Required: API Key

Query Params

UserNamestringrequired

The name (friendly name, not ARN) of the IAM user to attach the policy to. This parameter allows (through its <a href="http://wikipedia.org/wiki/regex">regex pattern</a>) a string of characters consisting of upper and lowercase alphanumeric characters with no spaces. You can also include any of the following characters: _+=,.@-

PolicyArnstringrequired

The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the IAM policy you want to attach. For more information about ARNs, see <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/aws-arns-and-namespaces.html">Amazon Resource Names (ARNs)</a> in the Amazon Web Services General Reference.

Actionstringrequired

Allowed:

Versionstringrequired

Allowed:

Responses

{
  "success": true,
  "data": {
    "id": "abc123",
    "created_at": "2025-01-01T00:00:00Z"
  }
}

{
  "success": false,
  "error": {
    "code": "VALIDATION_ERROR",
    "message": "Invalid request parameters"
  }
}

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CredentialsAPI KEY

API Key

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cURL Request

1curl --request GET \
2     --url 'https://iam.amazonaws.com/#Action=AttachUserPolicy' \
3     --header 'accept: application/json' \
4     --header 'content-type: application/json'

Response

1{
2  "success": true,
3  "data": {
4    "id": "abc123",
5    "created_at": "2025-01-01T00:00:00Z"
6  }
7}