Use AttachGroupPolicy with a CLI - Amazon Identity and Access Management
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Use AttachGroupPolicy with a CLI

The following code examples show how to use AttachGroupPolicy.

CLI
Amazon CLI

To attach a managed policy to an IAM group

The following attach-group-policy command attaches the Amazon managed policy named ReadOnlyAccess to the IAM group named Finance.

aws iam attach-group-policy \
    --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/ReadOnlyAccess \
    --group-name Finance

This command produces no output.

For more information, see Managed policies and inline policies in the Amazon IAM User Guide.

PowerShell
Tools for PowerShell V4

Example 1: This example attaches the customer managed policy named TesterPolicy to the IAM group Testers. The users in that group are immediately affected by the permissions defined in the default version of that policy.

Register-IAMGroupPolicy -GroupName Testers -PolicyArn arn:aws:iam::123456789012:policy/TesterPolicy

Example 2: This example attaches the Amazon managed policy named AdministratorAccess to the IAM group Admins. The users in that group are immediately affected by the permissions defined in the latest version of that policy.

Register-IAMGroupPolicy -GroupName Admins -PolicyArn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AdministratorAccess

  • For API details, see AttachGroupPolicy in Amazon Tools for PowerShell Cmdlet Reference (V4).

Tools for PowerShell V5

Example 1: This example attaches the customer managed policy named TesterPolicy to the IAM group Testers. The users in that group are immediately affected by the permissions defined in the default version of that policy.

Register-IAMGroupPolicy -GroupName Testers -PolicyArn arn:aws:iam::123456789012:policy/TesterPolicy

Example 2: This example attaches the Amazon managed policy named AdministratorAccess to the IAM group Admins. The users in that group are immediately affected by the permissions defined in the latest version of that policy.

Register-IAMGroupPolicy -GroupName Admins -PolicyArn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AdministratorAccess

  • For API details, see AttachGroupPolicy in Amazon Tools for PowerShell Cmdlet Reference (V5).

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