https://iam.amazonaws.com/#Action=GetRole<p>Retrieves information about the specified role, including the role's path, GUID, ARN, and the role's trust policy that grants permission to assume the role. For more information about roles, see <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/WorkingWithRoles.html">Working with roles</a>.</p> <note> <p>Policies returned by this operation are URL-encoded compliant with <a href="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986">RFC 3986</a>. You can use a URL decoding method to convert the policy back to plain JSON text. For example, if you use Java, you can use the <code>decode</code> method of the <code>java.net.URLDecoder</code> utility class in the Java SDK. Other languages and SDKs provide similar functionality.</p> </note>
<p>The name of the IAM role to get information about.</p> <p>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: _+=,.@-</p>
{
"success": true,
"data": {
"id": "abc123",
"created_at": "2025-01-01T00:00:00Z"
}
}{
"success": false,
"error": {
"code": "VALIDATION_ERROR",
"message": "Invalid request parameters"
}
}1curl --request GET \2 --url 'https://iam.amazonaws.com/#Action=GetRole' \3 --header 'accept: application/json' \4 --header 'content-type: application/json'1{2 "success": true,3 "data": {4 "id": "abc123",5 "created_at": "2025-01-01T00:00:00Z"6 }7}https://iam.amazonaws.com/#Action=GetRole<p>Retrieves information about the specified role, including the role's path, GUID, ARN, and the role's trust policy that grants permission to assume the role. For more information about roles, see <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/WorkingWithRoles.html">Working with roles</a>.</p> <note> <p>Policies returned by this operation are URL-encoded compliant with <a href="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986">RFC 3986</a>. You can use a URL decoding method to convert the policy back to plain JSON text. For example, if you use Java, you can use the <code>decode</code> method of the <code>java.net.URLDecoder</code> utility class in the Java SDK. Other languages and SDKs provide similar functionality.</p> </note>
<p>The name of the IAM role to get information about.</p> <p>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: _+=,.@-</p>
{
"success": true,
"data": {
"id": "abc123",
"created_at": "2025-01-01T00:00:00Z"
}
}{
"success": false,
"error": {
"code": "VALIDATION_ERROR",
"message": "Invalid request parameters"
}
}1curl --request GET \2 --url 'https://iam.amazonaws.com/#Action=GetRole' \3 --header 'accept: application/json' \4 --header 'content-type: application/json'1{2 "success": true,3 "data": {4 "id": "abc123",5 "created_at": "2025-01-01T00:00:00Z"6 }7}