GET

/#Action=CreatePolicy

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

Creates a new managed policy for your Amazon Web Services account. This operation creates a policy version with a version identifier of <code>v1</code> and sets v1 as the policy's default version. For more information about policy versions, see <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/policies-managed-versions.html">Versioning for managed policies</a> in the IAM User Guide. 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 managed policies in general, 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

PolicyNamestringrequired

The friendly name of the policy. IAM user, group, role, and policy names must be unique within the account. Names are not distinguished by case. For example, you cannot create resources named both "MyResource" and "myresource".

Pathstring

The path for the policy. For more information about paths, see <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/Using_Identifiers.html">IAM identifiers</a> in the IAM User Guide. This parameter is optional. If it is not included, it defaults to a slash (/). This parameter allows (through its <a href="http://wikipedia.org/wiki/regex">regex pattern</a>) a string of characters consisting of either a forward slash (/) by itself or a string that must begin and end with forward slashes. In addition, it can contain any ASCII character from the ! (<code>\u0021</code>) through the DEL character (<code>\u007F</code>), including most punctuation characters, digits, and upper and lowercased letters. <note> You cannot use an asterisk (*) in the path name. </note>

PolicyDocumentstringrequired

The JSON policy document that you want to use as the content for the new policy. You must provide policies in JSON format in IAM. However, for CloudFormation templates formatted in YAML, you can provide the policy in JSON or YAML format. CloudFormation always converts a YAML policy to JSON format before submitting it to IAM. The maximum length of the policy document that you can pass in this operation, including whitespace, is listed below. To view the maximum character counts of a managed policy with no whitespaces, see <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/reference_iam-quotas.html#reference_iam-quotas-entity-length">IAM and STS character quotas</a>. To learn more about JSON policy grammar, see <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/reference_policies_grammar.html">Grammar of the IAM JSON policy language</a> in the IAM User Guide. The <a href="http://wikipedia.org/wiki/regex">regex pattern</a> used to validate this parameter is a string of characters consisting of the following: <ul> <li> Any printable ASCII character ranging from the space character (<code>\u0020</code>) through the end of the ASCII character range </li> <li> The printable characters in the Basic Latin and Latin-1 Supplement character set (through <code>\u00FF</code>) </li> <li> The special characters tab (<code>\u0009</code>), line feed (<code>\u000A</code>), and carriage return (<code>\u000D</code>) </li> </ul>

Descriptionstring

A friendly description of the policy. Typically used to store information about the permissions defined in the policy. For example, "Grants access to production DynamoDB tables." The policy description is immutable. After a value is assigned, it cannot be changed.

Tagsarray

A list of tags that you want to attach to the new IAM customer managed policy. Each tag consists of a key name and an associated value. For more information about tagging, see <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/id_tags.html">Tagging IAM resources</a> in the IAM User Guide. <note> If any one of the tags is invalid or if you exceed the allowed maximum number of tags, then the entire request fails and the resource is not created. </note>

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"
  }
}

Language

CredentialsAPI KEY

API Key

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cURL Request

1curl --request GET \
2     --url 'https://iam.amazonaws.com/#Action=CreatePolicy' \
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}