Amazon ElastiCache Elasticache User API

The Elasticache User API from Amazon ElastiCache — 4 operation(s) for elasticache user.

Business capability
Identity & Access Management BC-620.20

Operations 4

POST /?Action=CreateUser Create User #
POST /?Action=DeleteUser Delete User #
POST /?Action=DescribeUsers Describe Users #
POST /?Action=ModifyUser Modify User #

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OpenAPI Specification

amazon-elasticache-user-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Amazon ElastiCache User API
  version: '2015-02-02'
  description: Generated from AWS's published Smithy model for Amazon ElastiCache. 4 operation(s).
  contact:
    name: Amazon Web Services
    url: https://aws.amazon.com/contact-us/
  license:
    name: Apache 2.0
    identifier: Apache-2.0
    url: https://github.com/aws/api-models-aws/blob/main/LICENSE
servers:
- url: https://elasticache.{region}.amazonaws.com
  variables:
    region:
      default: us-east-1
security:
- sigv4: []
tags:
- name: User
paths:
  /?Action=CreateUser:
    post:
      operationId: CreateUser
      summary: Create User
      description: 'For Valkey engine version 7.2 onwards and Redis OSS 6.0 to 7.1: Creates a user. For more information, see Using Role Based Access Control (RBAC).'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Success
          content:
            text/xml:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/User'
        '400':
          description: DuplicateUserNameFault; InvalidParameterCombinationException; InvalidParameterValueException; ServiceLinkedRoleNotFoundFault; TagQuotaPerResourceExceeded; UserAlreadyExistsFault; UserQuotaExceededFault
          content:
            text/xml:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/DuplicateUserNameFault'
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/x-www-form-urlencoded:
            schema:
              allOf:
              - type: object
                required:
                - Action
                - Version
                properties:
                  Action:
                    type: string
                    const: CreateUser
                  Version:
                    type: string
                    const: '2015-02-02'
              - $ref: '#/components/schemas/CreateUserMessage'
      tags:
      - User
  /?Action=DeleteUser:
    post:
      operationId: DeleteUser
      summary: Delete User
      description: 'For Valkey engine version 7.2 onwards and Redis OSS 6.0 onwards: Deletes a user. The user will be removed from all user groups and in turn removed from all replication groups. For more information, see Using Role Based Access Control (RBAC).'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Success
          content:
            text/xml:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/User'
        '400':
          description: DefaultUserAssociatedToUserGroupFault; InvalidParameterValueException; InvalidUserStateFault; ServiceLinkedRoleNotFoundFault
          content:
            text/xml:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/DefaultUserAssociatedToUserGroupFault'
        '404':
          description: UserNotFoundFault
          content:
            text/xml:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/UserNotFoundFault'
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/x-www-form-urlencoded:
            schema:
              allOf:
              - type: object
                required:
                - Action
                - Version
                properties:
                  Action:
                    type: string
                    const: DeleteUser
                  Version:
                    type: string
                    const: '2015-02-02'
              - $ref: '#/components/schemas/DeleteUserMessage'
      tags:
      - User
  /?Action=DescribeUsers:
    post:
      operationId: DescribeUsers
      summary: Describe Users
      description: Returns a list of users.
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Success
          content:
            text/xml:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/DescribeUsersResult'
        '400':
          description: InvalidParameterCombinationException; ServiceLinkedRoleNotFoundFault
          content:
            text/xml:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/InvalidParameterCombinationException'
        '404':
          description: UserNotFoundFault
          content:
            text/xml:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/UserNotFoundFault'
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/x-www-form-urlencoded:
            schema:
              allOf:
              - type: object
                required:
                - Action
                - Version
                properties:
                  Action:
                    type: string
                    const: DescribeUsers
                  Version:
                    type: string
                    const: '2015-02-02'
              - $ref: '#/components/schemas/DescribeUsersMessage'
      tags:
      - User
  /?Action=ModifyUser:
    post:
      operationId: ModifyUser
      summary: Modify User
      description: Changes user password(s) and/or access string.
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Success
          content:
            text/xml:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/User'
        '400':
          description: InvalidParameterCombinationException; InvalidParameterValueException; InvalidUserStateFault; ServiceLinkedRoleNotFoundFault
          content:
            text/xml:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/InvalidParameterCombinationException'
        '404':
          description: UserNotFoundFault
          content:
            text/xml:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/UserNotFoundFault'
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/x-www-form-urlencoded:
            schema:
              allOf:
              - type: object
                required:
                - Action
                - Version
                properties:
                  Action:
                    type: string
                    const: ModifyUser
                  Version:
                    type: string
                    const: '2015-02-02'
              - $ref: '#/components/schemas/ModifyUserMessage'
      tags:
      - User
components:
  schemas:
    CreateUserMessage:
      type: object
      properties:
        UserId:
          type: string
          description: The ID of the user. This value is stored as a lowercase string.
        UserName:
          type: string
          description: The username of the user.
        Engine:
          type: string
          description: The options are valkey or redis.
        Passwords:
          type: array
          items:
            type: string
          description: Passwords used for this user. You can create up to two passwords for each user.
        AccessString:
          type: string
          description: Access permissions string used for this user.
        NoPasswordRequired:
          type: boolean
          description: Indicates a password is not required for this user.
        Tags:
          type: array
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Tag'
          description: A list of tags to be added to this resource. A tag is a key-value pair. A tag key must be accompanied by a tag value, although null is accepted.
        AuthenticationMode:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/AuthenticationMode'
      required:
      - UserId
      - UserName
      - Engine
      - AccessString
    DuplicateUserNameFault:
      type: object
      properties:
        message:
          type: string
    Authentication:
      type: object
      properties:
        Type:
          type: string
          enum:
          - password
          - no-password
          - iam
          description: Indicates whether the user requires a password to authenticate.
        PasswordCount:
          type: integer
          description: The number of passwords belonging to the user. The maximum is two.
    ModifyUserMessage:
      type: object
      properties:
        UserId:
          type: string
          description: The ID of the user.
        AccessString:
          type: string
          description: Access permissions string used for this user.
        AppendAccessString:
          type: string
          description: Adds additional user permissions to the access string.
        Passwords:
          type: array
          items:
            type: string
          description: The passwords belonging to the user. You are allowed up to two.
        NoPasswordRequired:
          type: boolean
          description: Indicates no password is required for the user.
        AuthenticationMode:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/AuthenticationMode'
        Engine:
          type: string
          description: Modifies the engine listed for a user. The options are valkey or redis.
      required:
      - UserId
    DefaultUserAssociatedToUserGroupFault:
      type: object
      properties:
        message:
          type: string
    DescribeUsersResult:
      type: object
      properties:
        Users:
          type: array
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/User'
          description: A list of users.
        Marker:
          type: string
          description: An optional marker returned from a prior request. Use this marker for pagination of results from this operation. If this parameter is specified, the response includes only records beyond the marker, up to the value specified by MaxRecords. >
    Filter:
      type: object
      properties:
        Name:
          type: string
          description: The property being filtered. For example, UserId.
        Values:
          type: array
          items:
            type: string
          description: The property values to filter on. For example, "user-123".
      required:
      - Name
      - Values
    User:
      type: object
      properties:
        UserId:
          type: string
          description: The ID of the user.
        UserName:
          type: string
          description: The username of the user.
        Status:
          type: string
          description: Indicates the user status. Can be "active", "modifying" or "deleting".
        Engine:
          type: string
          description: The options are valkey or redis.
        MinimumEngineVersion:
          type: string
          description: The minimum engine version required, which is Redis OSS 6.0
        AccessString:
          type: string
          description: Access permissions string used for this user.
        UserGroupIds:
          type: array
          items:
            type: string
          description: Returns a list of the user group IDs the user belongs to.
        Authentication:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/Authentication'
        ARN:
          type: string
          description: The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the user.
    InvalidParameterCombinationException:
      type: object
      properties:
        message:
          type: string
          description: Two or more parameters that must not be used together were used together.
    Tag:
      type: object
      properties:
        Key:
          type: string
          description: The key for the tag. May not be null.
        Value:
          type: string
          description: The tag's value. May be null.
    AuthenticationMode:
      type: object
      properties:
        Type:
          type: string
          enum:
          - password
          - no-password-required
          - iam
          description: Specifies the authentication type. Possible options are IAM authentication, password and no password.
        Passwords:
          type: array
          items:
            type: string
          description: Specifies the passwords to use for authentication if Type is set to password.
    DeleteUserMessage:
      type: object
      properties:
        UserId:
          type: string
          description: The ID of the user.
      required:
      - UserId
    UserNotFoundFault:
      type: object
      properties:
        message:
          type: string
    DescribeUsersMessage:
      type: object
      properties:
        Engine:
          type: string
          description: The engine.
        UserId:
          type: string
          description: The ID of the user.
        Filters:
          type: array
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Filter'
          description: Filter to determine the list of User IDs to return.
        MaxRecords:
          type: integer
          description: The maximum number of records to include in the response. If more records exist than the specified MaxRecords value, a marker is included in the response so that the remaining results can be retrieved.
        Marker:
          type: string
          description: An optional marker returned from a prior request. Use this marker for pagination of results from this operation. If this parameter is specified, the response includes only records beyond the marker, up to the value specified by MaxRecords. >
  securitySchemes:
    sigv4:
      type: apiKey
      in: header
      name: Authorization
      description: AWS Signature Version 4. The Authorization header carries an AWS4-HMAC-SHA256 signature over the canonical request, with X-Amz-Date (and X-Amz-Security-Token for temporary credentials). Not a bearer token.
      x-aws-sigv4:
        signingName: elasticache
x-provenance:
  method: harvested
  publisher: Amazon Web Services
  source: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/aws/api-models-aws/582e55931c45b944739742a2c1620b6026dd2d13/models/elasticache/service/2015-02-02/elasticache-2015-02-02.json
  note: converted by smithy-to-openapi.py from AWS's Smithy model (roadmap#1001)