# CreateGroup
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Creates a new group.

 For information about the number of groups you can create, see [IAM and Amazon STS quotas](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/IAM/latest/UserGuide/reference_iam-quotas.html) in the *IAM User Guide*.

## Request Parameters
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 For information about the parameters that are common to all actions, see [Common Parameters](CommonParameters.md).

 ** GroupName **   
The name of the group to create. Do not include the path in this value.  
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".  
Type: String  
Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 128.  
Pattern: `[\w+=,.@-]+`   
Required: Yes

 ** Path **   
 The path to the group. For more information about paths, see [IAM identifiers](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/IAM/latest/UserGuide/Using_Identifiers.html) in the *IAM User Guide*.  
This parameter is optional. If it is not included, it defaults to a slash (/).  
This parameter allows (through its [regex pattern](http://wikipedia.org/wiki/regex)) 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 \$1 (`\u0021`) through the DEL character (`\u007F`), including most punctuation characters, digits, and upper and lowercased letters.  
Type: String  
Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 512.  
Pattern: `(\u002F)|(\u002F[\u0021-\u007E]+\u002F)`   
Required: No

## Response Elements
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The following element is returned by the service.

 ** Group **   
A structure containing details about the new group.  
Type: [Group](API_Group.md) object

## Errors
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For information about the errors that are common to all actions, see [Common Error Types](CommonErrors.md).

 ** EntityAlreadyExists **   
The request was rejected because it attempted to create a resource that already exists.  
HTTP Status Code: 409

 ** LimitExceeded **   
The request was rejected because it attempted to create resources beyond the current Amazon Web Services account limits. The error message describes the limit exceeded.  
HTTP Status Code: 409

 ** NoSuchEntity **   
The request was rejected because it referenced a resource entity that does not exist. The error message describes the resource.  
HTTP Status Code: 404

 ** ServiceFailure **   
The request processing has failed because of an unknown error, exception or failure.  
HTTP Status Code: 500

## Examples
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### Example
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This example illustrates one usage of CreateGroup.

#### Sample Request
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```
https://iam.amazonaws.com/?Action=CreateGroup
&GroupName=Admins
&Version=2010-05-08
&AUTHPARAMS
```

#### Sample Response
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```
<CreateGroupResponse xmlns="https://iam.amazonaws.com/doc/2010-05-08/">
  <CreateGroupResult>
    <Group>
      <Path>/</Path>
      <GroupName>Admins</GroupName>
      <GroupId>AGPACKCEVSQ6C2EXAMPLE</GroupId>
      <Arn>arn:aws:iam::123456789012:group/Admins</Arn>
    </Group>
  </CreateGroupResult>
  <ResponseMetadata>
    <RequestId>7a62c49f-347e-4fc4-9331-6e8eEXAMPLE</RequestId>
  </ResponseMetadata>
</CreateGroupResponse>
```

## See Also
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For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific Amazon SDKs, see the following:
+  [Amazon Command Line Interface V2](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/goto/cli2/iam-2010-05-08/CreateGroup) 
+  [Amazon SDK for .NET V4](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/goto/DotNetSDKV4/iam-2010-05-08/CreateGroup) 
+  [Amazon SDK for C\$1\$1](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/goto/SdkForCpp/iam-2010-05-08/CreateGroup) 
+  [Amazon SDK for Go v2](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/goto/SdkForGoV2/iam-2010-05-08/CreateGroup) 
+  [Amazon SDK for Java V2](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/goto/SdkForJavaV2/iam-2010-05-08/CreateGroup) 
+  [Amazon SDK for JavaScript V3](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/goto/SdkForJavaScriptV3/iam-2010-05-08/CreateGroup) 
+  [Amazon SDK for Kotlin](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/goto/SdkForKotlin/iam-2010-05-08/CreateGroup) 
+  [Amazon SDK for PHP V3](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/goto/SdkForPHPV3/iam-2010-05-08/CreateGroup) 
+  [Amazon SDK for Python](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/goto/boto3/iam-2010-05-08/CreateGroup) 
+  [Amazon SDK for Ruby V3](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/goto/SdkForRubyV3/iam-2010-05-08/CreateGroup)