CreateUser - Amazon ElastiCache
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CreateUser

For Redis engine version 6.0 onwards: Creates a Redis user. For more information, see Using Role Based Access Control (RBAC).

Request Parameters

For information about the parameters that are common to all actions, see Common Parameters.

AccessString

Access permissions string used for this user.

Type: String

Pattern: .*\S.*

Required: Yes

Engine

The current supported value is Redis.

Type: String

Pattern: [a-zA-Z]*

Required: Yes

UserId

The ID of the user.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1.

Pattern: [a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9\-]*

Required: Yes

UserName

The username of the user.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1.

Required: Yes

AuthenticationMode

Specifies how to authenticate the user.

Type: AuthenticationMode object

Required: No

NoPasswordRequired

Indicates a password is not required for this user.

Type: Boolean

Required: No

Passwords.member.N

Passwords used for this user. You can create up to two passwords for each user.

Type: Array of strings

Array Members: Minimum number of 1 item.

Required: No

Tags.Tag.N

A list of tags to be added to this resource. A tag is a key-value pair. A tag key must be accompanied by a tag value, although null is accepted.

Type: Array of Tag objects

Required: No

Response Elements

The following elements are returned by the service.

AccessString

Access permissions string used for this user.

Type: String

ARN

The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the user.

Type: String

Authentication

Denotes whether the user requires a password to authenticate.

Type: Authentication object

Engine

The current supported value is Redis.

Type: String

Pattern: [a-zA-Z]*

MinimumEngineVersion

The minimum engine version required, which is Redis 6.0

Type: String

Status

Indicates the user status. Can be "active", "modifying" or "deleting".

Type: String

UserGroupIds.member.N

Returns a list of the user group IDs the user belongs to.

Type: Array of strings

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1.

Pattern: [a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9\-]*

UserId

The ID of the user.

Type: String

UserName

The username of the user.

Type: String

Errors

For information about the errors that are common to all actions, see Common Errors.

DuplicateUserName

A user with this username already exists.

HTTP Status Code: 400

InvalidParameterCombination

Two or more incompatible parameters were specified.

HTTP Status Code: 400

InvalidParameterValue

The value for a parameter is invalid.

HTTP Status Code: 400

ServiceLinkedRoleNotFoundFault

The specified service linked role (SLR) was not found.

HTTP Status Code: 400

TagQuotaPerResourceExceeded

The request cannot be processed because it would cause the resource to have more than the allowed number of tags. The maximum number of tags permitted on a resource is 50.

HTTP Status Code: 400

UserAlreadyExists

A user with this ID already exists.

HTTP Status Code: 400

UserQuotaExceeded

The quota of users has been exceeded.

HTTP Status Code: 400

See Also

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