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AWS singlesignon documentation change

Service: singlesignon · 2025-05-13 · Documentation low

File: singlesignon/latest/userguide/addgroups.md

Summary

Added AWS CLI examples for creating groups in IAM Identity Center

Security assessment

Expanded operational documentation to include CLI usage. While group management is security-adjacent, this change does not introduce new security features or address vulnerabilities.

Diff

diff --git a/singlesignon/latest/userguide/addgroups.md b/singlesignon/latest/userguide/addgroups.md
index d75630cc0..130ea118d 100644
--- a//singlesignon/latest/userguide/addgroups.md
+++ b//singlesignon/latest/userguide/addgroups.md
@@ -7 +7,4 @@
-Use the following procedure to add groups to your Identity Center directory using the IAM Identity Center console. Alternatively, you can call the AWS API operation [CreateGroup](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/singlesignon/latest/IdentityStoreAPIReference/API_CreateGroup.html) to add groups.
+Use the following procedure to add groups to your Identity Center directory. Alternatively, you can call the AWS API operation [CreateGroup](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/singlesignon/latest/IdentityStoreAPIReference/API_CreateGroup.html) to add groups.
+
+Console
+    
@@ -24 +27,23 @@ Use the following procedure to add groups to your Identity Center directory usin
-After you add this group to your Identity Center directory, you can assign single sign-on access to this group. For more information, see [Assign user or group access to AWS accounts](./assignusers.html).
+AWS CLI
+    
+
+###### To add a group
+
+The following `create-group` command creates a new group in your Identity Center directory.
+    
+    
+    aws identitystore create-group \
+        --identity-store-id d-1234567890 \
+        --display-name "Developers" \
+        --description "Group that contains all developers" 
+    
+
+Output:
+    
+    
+    {
+        "GroupId": "1a2b3c4d-5e6f-7g8h-9i0j-1k2l3m4n5o6p",
+        "IdentityStoreId": "d-1234567890"
+    }
+
+After you add this group to your Identity Center directory, you can assign single sign-on access to the group. For more information, see [Assign user or group access to AWS accounts](./assignusers.html).