Request Syntax Request Parameters Response Syntax Response Elements Errors Examples See Also

CreateDirectory

Creates a Simple AD directory. For more information, see Simple Active Directory in the AWS Directory Service Admin Guide.

Before you call CreateDirectory, ensure that all of the required permissions have been explicitly granted through a policy. For details about what permissions are required to run the CreateDirectory operation, see AWS Directory Service API Permissions: Actions, Resources, and Conditions Reference.

Request Syntax


{
   "Description": "string",
   "Name": "string",
   "Password": "string",
   "ShortName": "string",
   "Size": "string",
   "Tags": [ 
      { 
         "Key": "string",
         "Value": "string"
      }
   ],
   "VpcSettings": { 
      "SubnetIds": [ "string" ],
      "VpcId": "string"
   }
}

Request Parameters

The request accepts the following data in JSON format.

Description

A description for the directory.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 0. Maximum length of 128.

Pattern: ^([a-zA-Z0-9_])[\\a-zA-Z0-9_@#%*+=:?./!\s-]*$

Required: No

Name

The fully qualified name for the directory, such as corp.example.com.

Type: String

Pattern: ^([a-zA-Z0-9]+[\\.-])+([a-zA-Z0-9])+$

Required: Yes

Password

The password for the directory administrator. The directory creation process creates a directory administrator account with the user name Administrator and this password.

If you need to change the password for the administrator account, you can use the ResetUserPassword API call.

The regex pattern for this string is made up of the following conditions:

Length (?=^.{8,64}$) – Must be between 8 and 64 characters

AND any 3 of the following password complexity rules required by Active Directory:

Numbers and upper case and lowercase (?=.*\d)(?=.*[A-Z])(?=.*[a-z])
Numbers and special characters and lower case (?=.*\d)(?=.*[^A-Za-z0-9\s])(?=.*[a-z])
Special characters and upper case and lower case (?=.*[^A-Za-z0-9\s])(?=.*[A-Z])(?=.*[a-z])
Numbers and upper case and special characters (?=.*\d)(?=.*[A-Z])(?=.*[^A-Za-z0-9\s])

For additional information about how Active Directory passwords are enforced, see Password must meet complexity requirements on the Microsoft website.

Type: String

Pattern: (?=^.{8,64}$)((?=.*\d)(?=.*[A-Z])(?=.*[a-z])|(?=.*\d)(?=.*[^A-Za-z0-9\s])(?=.*[a-z])|(?=.*[^A-Za-z0-9\s])(?=.*[A-Z])(?=.*[a-z])|(?=.*\d)(?=.*[A-Z])(?=.*[^A-Za-z0-9\s]))^.*

Required: Yes

ShortName

The NetBIOS name of the directory, such as CORP.

Type: String

Pattern: ^[^\\/:*?"<>|.]+[^\\/:*?"<>|]*$

Required: No

Size

The size of the directory.

Type: String

Valid Values: Small | Large

Required: Yes

Tags

The tags to be assigned to the Simple AD directory.

Type: Array of Tag objects

Required: No

VpcSettings

A DirectoryVpcSettings object that contains additional information for the operation.

Type: DirectoryVpcSettings object

Required: No

Response Syntax


{
   "DirectoryId": "string"
}

Response Elements

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

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

DirectoryId

The identifier of the directory that was created.

Type: String

Pattern: ^d-[0-9a-f]{10}$

Errors

For information about the errors that are common to all actions, see Common Errors.

ClientException

A client exception has occurred.

HTTP Status Code: 400

DirectoryLimitExceededException

The maximum number of directories in the region has been reached. You can use the GetDirectoryLimits operation to determine your directory limits in the region.

HTTP Status Code: 400

InvalidParameterException

One or more parameters are not valid.

HTTP Status Code: 400

ServiceException

An exception has occurred in AWS Directory Service.

HTTP Status Code: 500

Examples

The following examples are formatted for legibility.

Example Request

This example illustrates one usage of CreateDirectory.


POST / HTTP/1.1
Host: ds.us-west-2.amazonaws.com
Accept-Encoding: identity
Content-Length: 245
X-Amz-Target: DirectoryService_20150416.CreateDirectory
X-Amz-Date: 20161213T222613Z
User-Agent: aws-cli/1.11.24 Python/2.7.9 Windows/7 botocore/1.4.81
Content-Type: application/x-amz-json-1.1
Authorization: AWS4-HMAC-SHA256 
 Credential=AKIAI7E3BYXS3example/20161213/us-west-2/ds/aws4_request, 
 SignedHeaders=content-type;host;x-amz-date;x-amz-target, 
 Signature=e0bf599277231d294b0ebb1c7ad7a68aafdfc49db016adbee32a167954c53d54

 {
   "Description":"Regional directory for example.com",
   "VpcSettings":{
      "SubnetIds":[
         "subnet-ba0146de",
         "subnet-bef46bc8"
      ],
      "VpcId":"vpc-45025421"
   },
   "Name":"seattle.example.com",
   "ShortName":"seattle",
   "Password":"Str0ngP@ssw0rd",
   "Size":"Small"
 }

Example Response

This example illustrates one usage of CreateDirectory.


HTTP/1.1 200 OK
x-amzn-RequestId: 298112b6-c183-11e6-9b49-eff49203d13b
Content-Type: application/x-amz-json-1.1
Content-Length: 30
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2016 22:26:17 GMT

{  
   "DirectoryId":"d-926example"
}