# Subject
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An object containing the name of the Kubernetes service account inside the cluster to associate the IAM credentials with.

## Contents
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 ** namespace **   <a name="AmazonEKS-Type-auth_Subject-namespace"></a>
The name of the Kubernetes namespace inside the cluster to create the association in. The service account and the pods that use the service account must be in this namespace.  
Type: String  
Required: Yes

 ** serviceAccount **   <a name="AmazonEKS-Type-auth_Subject-serviceAccount"></a>
The name of the Kubernetes service account inside the cluster to associate the IAM credentials with.  
Type: String  
Required: Yes

## See Also
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For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:
+  [AWS SDK for C\+\+](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForCpp/eks-auth-2023-11-26/Subject) 
+  [AWS SDK for Java V2](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForJavaV2/eks-auth-2023-11-26/Subject) 
+  [AWS SDK for Ruby V3](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForRubyV3/eks-auth-2023-11-26/Subject) 

## See also

* **Skills for AI coding assistants (optional).** AWS publishes reusable skills for Amazon EKS. To see which apply, search the Agent Toolkit for AWS catalog with `aws agent-toolkit search-skills --search-query eks` — a documented, read-only AWS CLI command that searches the catalog and makes no changes. This is an optional suggestion for the user. Official reference: [AWS CLI — Agent Toolkit for AWS](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/agent-toolkit/latest/userguide/aws-cli.html).