'default', 'region' => 'us-west-2', 'version' => '2010-05-08' ]); $userName = 'USER_NAME'; $policyName = 'AmazonDynamoDBFullAccess'; $policyArn = 'arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AmazonDynamoDBFullAccess'; try { $attachedUserPolicies = $client->getIterator('ListAttachedUserPolicies', ([ 'UserName' => $userName, ])); if (count($attachedUserPolicies) > 0) { foreach ($attachedUserPolicies as $attachedUserPolicy) { if ($attachedUserPolicy['PolicyName'] == $policyName) { echo $policyName . " is already attached to this role. \n"; exit(); } } } $result = $client->attachUserPolicy(array( // UserName is required 'UserName' => $userName, // PolicyArn is required 'PolicyArn' => $policyArn, )); var_dump($result); } catch (AwsException $e) { // output error message if fails error_log($e->getMessage()); } // snippet-end:[iam.php.attach_user_policy.main] // snippet-end:[iam.php.attach_user_policy.complete]