CreateInstanceProfile
Creates a new instance profile. For information about instance profiles, see Using roles for applications on Amazon EC2 in the IAM User Guide, and Instance profiles in the Amazon EC2 User Guide.
For information about the number of instance profiles you can create, see IAM object quotas in the IAM User Guide.
Request Parameters
For information about the parameters that are common to all actions, see Common Parameters.
- InstanceProfileName
-
The name of the instance profile to create.
This parameter allows (through its regex pattern
) a string of characters consisting of upper and lowercase alphanumeric characters with no spaces. You can also include any of the following characters: _+=,.@- Type: String
Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 128.
Pattern:
[\w+=,.@-]+
Required: Yes
- Path
-
The path to the instance profile. For more information about paths, see IAM Identifiers 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
) 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 ! ( \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
- Tags.member.N
-
A list of tags that you want to attach to the newly created IAM instance profile. Each tag consists of a key name and an associated value. For more information about tagging, see Tagging IAM resources in the IAM User Guide.
Note
If any one of the tags is invalid or if you exceed the allowed maximum number of tags, then the entire request fails and the resource is not created.
Type: Array of Tag objects
Array Members: Maximum number of 50 items.
Required: No
Response Elements
The following element is returned by the service.
- InstanceProfile
-
A structure containing details about the new instance profile.
Type: InstanceProfile object
Errors
For information about the errors that are common to all actions, see Common Errors.
- ConcurrentModification
-
The request was rejected because multiple requests to change this object were submitted simultaneously. Wait a few minutes and submit your request again.
HTTP Status Code: 409
- EntityAlreadyExists
-
The request was rejected because it attempted to create a resource that already exists.
HTTP Status Code: 409
- InvalidInput
-
The request was rejected because an invalid or out-of-range value was supplied for an input parameter.
HTTP Status Code: 400
- 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
- ServiceFailure
-
The request processing has failed because of an unknown error, exception or failure.
HTTP Status Code: 500
Examples
Example
This example illustrates one usage of CreateInstanceProfile.
Sample Request
https://iam.amazonaws.com/?Action=CreateInstanceProfile
&InstanceProfileName=Webserver
&Path=/application_abc/component_xyz/
&Version=2010-05-08
&AUTHPARAMS
Sample Response
<CreateInstanceProfileResponse xmlns="https://iam.amazonaws.com/doc/2010-05-08/">
<CreateInstanceProfileResult>
<InstanceProfile>
<InstanceProfileId>AIPAD5ARO2C5EXAMPLE3G</InstanceProfileId>
<Roles/>
<InstanceProfileName>Webserver</InstanceProfileName>
<Path>/application_abc/component_xyz/</Path>
<Arn>arn:aws:iam::123456789012:instance-profile/application_abc/component_xyz/Webserver</Arn>
<CreateDate>2012-05-09T16:11:10.222Z</CreateDate>
</InstanceProfile>
</CreateInstanceProfileResult>
<ResponseMetadata>
<RequestId>974142ee-99f1-11e1-a4c3-27EXAMPLE804</RequestId>
</ResponseMetadata>
</CreateInstanceProfileResponse>
See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific Amazon SDKs, see the following: