AWS – The AWS Management Console now supports simultaneous sign-in for multiple AWS accounts

Today, AWS announces multi-sesssion support which enables customers to access multiple AWS accounts in the AWS Console. Customers can sign-in to up to 5 sessions in a single browser, and this can be any combination of root, IAM, or federated roles in different accounts or in the same account.

Customer applications scale multiple accounts following AWS best-practice guidelines. They often use accounts for different environments such as development, testing, production, and compare resource configurations and statuses across multiple accounts for troubleshooting application issues and other application related jobs. Before this launch, the AWS Console supported one account sign-in at a time, and customers used mechanism such as signing-in accounts in different browsers or installing third-party browser plugins to access multiple accounts in different browsers. Using multi-session capability in the AWS Console, customers can sign-in to their different AWS accounts and manage their resources in a single browser.

Multi-session support is available in Commercial Regions. Try it today by signing in to the AWS Console, selecting the account menu, and selecting “Turn on multi-session”. You can opt out at any time from the account menu. Visit AWS Console documentation to learn more.

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