ListRoles (GET)

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/#/ListRoles

Availability
Early Access: July 1, 2026
Early Access is gated; contact the Backblaze Sales team for access.
Limited Availability: July 1, 2026
This API is available only to customers with access to the Backblaze Enterprise Web Console. For more information, contact the Backblaze Sales team.

List roles in the account

Actual request: GET /?Action=ListRoles&Version=2010-05-08&... to iam.backblazeb2.com.

Request parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
Action	string	yes	ListRoles
Version	string	yes	2010-05-08
PathPrefix	string	no	Filter by path prefix.
Marker	string	no	Pagination marker.
MaxItems	integer	no	Maximum number of roles to return (up to 1,000).

Example response

 <ListRolesResponse xmlns="https://iam.amazonaws.com/doc/2010-05-08/">
  <ListRolesResult>
    <Roles>
      <member>
        <Path>/service/</Path>
        <RoleName>analytics-role</RoleName>
        <RoleId>AROAEXAMPLE123456789</RoleId>
        <Arn>arn:aws:iam::123456789012:role/service/analytics-role</Arn>
        <CreateDate>2026-02-03T21:10:00Z</CreateDate>
      </member>
    </Roles>
    <IsTruncated>false</IsTruncated>
  </ListRolesResult>
  <ResponseMetadata>
    <RequestId>req-1234567890</RequestId>
  </ResponseMetadata>
</ListRolesResponse>

Security

API Key: sigv4

Header parameter nameAuthorization

AWS Signature Version 4. The Authorization header takes the form AWS4-HMAC-SHA256 Credential=..., SignedHeaders=..., Signature=.... For IAM and STS requests, the signing region is not validated; use any non-empty region value consistently. The signing service must be iam for IAM requests and sts for STS requests. When using temporary credentials, also include X-Amz-Security-Token: <session-token>.

Query parameters

Action

stringRequired

API operation name.

Version

stringRequired

IAM API version.

Valid values[ "2010-05-08" ]

Default"2010-05-08"

PathPrefix

string

Filter results by path prefix.

Example/service/

Marker

string

Pagination marker returned by a previous list response.

MaxItems

integer

Maximum number of items to return. Maximum 1,000.

Minimum1

Maximum1000

Responses

200

The request succeeded. The response body is an XML document specific to the Action invoked, with a ResponseMetadata block containing a RequestId.

string

Action-specific XML response. See the example response for each operation.

400

The request was malformed or failed validation.

HTTP Status	Code	Description
400	ValidationError	Invalid input parameter or failed validation.

string

403

The caller is not authorized. For operations that reference IAM resources, authorization may be evaluated before resource existence is disclosed.

HTTP Status	Code	Description
403	AccessDenied	The authenticated principal lacks permission for this action.

string

429

The request was rate-limited.

HTTP Status	Code	Description
429	Throttling	Too many requests. Use exponential backoff.

string

500

The server encountered an unexpected condition.

HTTP Status	Code	Description
500	InternalFailure	Unexpected server error.

string

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