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APIs.io Engineering Platform #Action=CreateUser API

The #Action=CreateUser API from APIs.io Engineering Platform — 1 operation(s) for #action=createuser.

This API exposes 2 operations across 1 path, and defines 20 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.0.0, at version 2015-07-09.

Requests are made against 4 base URLs: http://apigateway.{region}.amazonaws.com, https://apigateway.{region}.amazonaws.com, http://apigateway.{region}.amazonaws.com.cn, https://apigateway.{region}.amazonaws.com.cn.

2 operations 1 paths 20 schemas 1 GET1 POST

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 3.0.0
API Version
2015-07-09
Base URL
https://{bucketname}.s3.amazonaws.com
Authentication
API Key
Terms of Service
Resource Areas
1

Authentication & Security 1

APIs.io Engineering Platform #Action=CreateUser API declares 1 security scheme for authenticating requests. An API key is passed in the header as Authorization (hmac). By default, every request must be authenticated.

  • hmac — Amazon Signature authorization v4

Paths & Operations 2

Across 1 path, the API surfaces 2 operations — 1 GET, 1 POST. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

#Action=CreateUser 2
GET
/#Action=CreateUser
Creates a new IAM user for your Amazon Web Services account. For information about quotas for the number of IAM users you can create, see IAM and STS quotas in the IAM User Guide .
GET_CreateUser 13 params → 200480481482483484485
POST
/#Action=CreateUser
Creates a new IAM user for your Amazon Web Services account. For information about quotas for the number of IAM users you can create, see IAM and STS quotas in the IAM User Guide .
POST_CreateUser 9 params body → 200480481482483484485

Schemas 20

The contract defines 20 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are User (8 properties), CreateUserRequest (4 properties), AttachedPermissionsBoundary (2 properties), Tag (2 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

InvalidInputException
tagListType
array
Tag
object
A structure that represents user-provided metadata that can be associated with an IAM resource. For more information about tagging, see Tagging IAM resources i…
2 properties 2 required
userNameType
string
arnType
string
The Amazon Resource Name (ARN). ARNs are unique identifiers for Amazon Web Services resources. For more information about ARNs, go to Amazon Resource Names (AR…
CreateUserRequest
object
4 properties 1 required
pathType
string
tagKeyType
string
tagValueType
string
LimitExceededException
idType
string
ConcurrentModificationException
AttachedPermissionsBoundary
object
Contains information about an attached permissions boundary. An attached permissions boundary is a managed policy that has been attached to a user or role to s…
2 properties
NoSuchEntityException
dateType
string
ServiceFailureException
CreateUserResponse
object
Contains the response to a successful CreateUser request.
1 property
EntityAlreadyExistsException
User
object
Contains information about an IAM user entity. This data type is used as a response element in the following operations: CreateUser GetUser ListUsers
8 properties 5 required
PermissionsBoundaryAttachmentType
string

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

engineering-platform-action-createuser-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑