Role - Amazon Identity and Access Management
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Role

Contains information about an IAM role. This structure is returned as a response element in several API operations that interact with roles.

Contents

Arn

The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) specifying the role. For more information about ARNs and how to use them in policies, see IAM identifiers in the IAM User Guide guide.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 20. Maximum length of 2048.

Required: Yes

CreateDate

The date and time, in ISO 8601 date-time format, when the role was created.

Type: Timestamp

Required: Yes

Path

The path to the role. For more information about paths, see IAM identifiers in the IAM User Guide.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 512.

Pattern: (\u002F)|(\u002F[\u0021-\u007E]+\u002F)

Required: Yes

RoleId

The stable and unique string identifying the role. For more information about IDs, see IAM identifiers in the IAM User Guide.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 16. Maximum length of 128.

Pattern: [\w]+

Required: Yes

RoleName

The friendly name that identifies the role.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 64.

Pattern: [\w+=,.@-]+

Required: Yes

AssumeRolePolicyDocument

The policy that grants an entity permission to assume the role.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 131072.

Pattern: [\u0009\u000A\u000D\u0020-\u00FF]+

Required: No

Description

A description of the role that you provide.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Maximum length of 1000.

Pattern: [\u0009\u000A\u000D\u0020-\u007E\u00A1-\u00FF]*

Required: No

MaxSessionDuration

The maximum session duration (in seconds) for the specified role. Anyone who uses the Amazon CLI, or API to assume the role can specify the duration using the optional DurationSeconds API parameter or duration-seconds CLI parameter.

Type: Integer

Valid Range: Minimum value of 3600. Maximum value of 43200.

Required: No

PermissionsBoundary

The ARN of the policy used to set the permissions boundary for the role.

For more information about permissions boundaries, see Permissions boundaries for IAM identities in the IAM User Guide.

Type: AttachedPermissionsBoundary object

Required: No

RoleLastUsed

Contains information about the last time that an IAM role was used. This includes the date and time and the Region in which the role was last used. Activity is only reported for the trailing 400 days. This period can be shorter if your Region began supporting these features within the last year. The role might have been used more than 400 days ago. For more information, see Regions where data is tracked in the IAM user Guide.

Type: RoleLastUsed object

Required: No

Tags.member.N

A list of tags that are attached to the role. For more information about tagging, see Tagging IAM resources in the IAM User Guide.

Type: Array of Tag objects

Array Members: Maximum number of 50 items.

Required: No

See Also

For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific Amazon SDKs, see the following: