Create IAM user using the AWS CLI

Question

Hi Guys,

I have configured AWS CLI in the local system. I want to create an IAM user from the command line. How can I do that?

Answer 1

Hi@akhtar,

You can create an IAM user from the command line. It uses a create-user in CLI to create the user in the current account as shown below.

$ aws iam create-user –user-name user1