# AssociateMember
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Associates an Amazon Web Services account with an Amazon Inspector delegated administrator. An HTTP 200 response indicates the association was successfully started, but doesn’t indicate whether it was completed. You can check if the association completed by using [ListMembers](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/inspector/v2/APIReference/API_ListMembers.html) for multiple accounts or [GetMembers](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/inspector/v2/APIReference/API_GetMember.html) for a single account.

## Request Syntax
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```
POST /members/associate HTTP/1.1
Content-type: application/json

{
   "accountId": "string"
}
```

## URI Request Parameters
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The request does not use any URI parameters.

## Request Body
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The request accepts the following data in JSON format.

 ** [accountId](#API_AssociateMember_RequestSyntax) **   <a name="inspector2-AssociateMember-request-accountId"></a>
The Amazon Web Services account ID of the member account to be associated.  
Type: String  
Length Constraints: Fixed length of 12.  
Pattern: `\d{12}`   
Required: Yes

## Response Syntax
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```
HTTP/1.1 200
Content-type: application/json

{
   "accountId": "string"
}
```

## Response Elements
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If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 200 response.

The following data is returned in JSON format by the service.

 ** [accountId](#API_AssociateMember_ResponseSyntax) **   <a name="inspector2-AssociateMember-response-accountId"></a>
The Amazon Web Services account ID of the successfully associated member account.  
Type: String  
Length Constraints: Fixed length of 12.  
Pattern: `\d{12}` 

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

 ** AccessDeniedException **   
You do not have sufficient access to perform this action.  
 For `Enable`, you receive this error if you attempt to use a feature in an unsupported Amazon Web Services Region.   
HTTP Status Code: 403

 ** InternalServerException **   
The request has failed due to an internal failure of the Amazon Inspector service.    
 ** retryAfterSeconds **   
The number of seconds to wait before retrying the request.
HTTP Status Code: 500

 ** ServiceQuotaExceededException **   
You have exceeded your service quota. To perform the requested action, remove some of the relevant resources, or use Service Quotas to request a service quota increase.    
 ** resourceId **   
The ID of the resource that exceeds a service quota.
HTTP Status Code: 402

 ** ThrottlingException **   
The limit on the number of requests per second was exceeded.    
 ** retryAfterSeconds **   
The number of seconds to wait before retrying the request.
HTTP Status Code: 429

 ** ValidationException **   
The request has failed validation due to missing required fields or having invalid inputs.    
 ** fields **   
The fields that failed validation.  
 ** reason **   
The reason for the validation failure.
HTTP Status Code: 400

## 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/inspector2-2020-06-08/AssociateMember) 
+  [Amazon SDK for .NET V4](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/goto/DotNetSDKV4/inspector2-2020-06-08/AssociateMember) 
+  [Amazon SDK for C\$1\$1](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/goto/SdkForCpp/inspector2-2020-06-08/AssociateMember) 
+  [Amazon SDK for Go v2](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/goto/SdkForGoV2/inspector2-2020-06-08/AssociateMember) 
+  [Amazon SDK for Java V2](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/goto/SdkForJavaV2/inspector2-2020-06-08/AssociateMember) 
+  [Amazon SDK for JavaScript V3](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/goto/SdkForJavaScriptV3/inspector2-2020-06-08/AssociateMember) 
+  [Amazon SDK for Kotlin](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/goto/SdkForKotlin/inspector2-2020-06-08/AssociateMember) 
+  [Amazon SDK for PHP V3](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/goto/SdkForPHPV3/inspector2-2020-06-08/AssociateMember) 
+  [Amazon SDK for Python](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/goto/boto3/inspector2-2020-06-08/AssociateMember) 
+  [Amazon SDK for Ruby V3](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/goto/SdkForRubyV3/inspector2-2020-06-08/AssociateMember)