This documentation is a draft for private preview for regions in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud. Documentation content will continue to evolve. Published: December 30, 2025.Add users to groups
Use the following procedure to add users as members of a group that you previously
created in your Identity Center directory. Alternatively, you can call the AWS API
operation CreateGroupMembership to add a user as a member
of a group.
- Console
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To add a user as a member of a group
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Open the IAM Identity Center
console.
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Choose Groups.
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Choose the group name that you want to
update.
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On the group details page, under Users in this group,
choose Add users to group.
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On the Add users to group page, under Other
users, locate the users you want to add as members. Then,
select the check box next to each of them.
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Choose Add users.
- AWS CLI
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To add a user as a member of a group
The following create-group-membership command adds a user
to a group in your Identity Center directory.
aws identitystore create-group-membership \
--identity-store-id d-1234567890 \
--group-id a1b2c3d4-5678-90ab-cdef-EXAMPLE22222 \
--member-id UserId=a1b2c3d4-5678-90ab-cdef-EXAMPLE11111
Output:
{
"MembershipId": "a1b2c3d4-5678-90ab-cdef-EXAMPLE33333",
"IdentityStoreId": "d-1234567890"
}