How to switch role in AWS CLI when logged in as an Identity Center user?

Question

I have configured the AWS CLI to use IAM Identity Center for authentication as recommended here https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-chap-authentication.html. As such I have followed the recommended guide at https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/sso-configure-profile-token.html to set up the CLI. For now, everything is working fine. The problem is I need to use an IAM role to perform some tasks via the CLI and I don't see how.

The IAM role that I have to assume is defined as
```json
{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Principal": {
                "AWS": [
                    "arn:aws:iam::123456789012user/User1",
                    "arn:aws:iam::123456789012:user/User2"
                ]
            },
            "Action": "sts:AssumeRole"
        }
    ]
}
```
As you can see, I have allowed to IAM users the ability to assume this role. But I have no idea how I can let an Identity Center user to assume this role. Moreover, how do I tell the CLI to perform actions by assuming a role? I see this documentation https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-configure-role.html#cli-role-overview but this again asks for a source profile.

Accepted Answer

Thanks to kentrad's answer, I found a good solution to this.

First run the below while logged into the CLI with the SSO user you want to add
```
aws sts get-caller-identity --query Arn --output tex
```

This should generate an output like
```
arn:aws:sts::123456789012:assumed-role/ROLEID:SSOUSER
```

Whatever gets generated, just put it into the policy like

```json
{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Principal": {
                "AWS": [
                    "arn:aws:iam::123456789012:user/User1",
                    "arn:aws:iam::123456789012:user/User2",
                    "arn:aws:sts::123456789012:assumed-role/ROLEID:SSOUSER"
                ]
            },
            "Action": "sts:AssumeRole"
        }
    ]
}
```

That should be enough to get the SSO user to be able to assume that role.

Answer

You can add your role ARN to the trust policy of the role you want to assume. You can find your ARN using the following CLI commands.

```
RoleId=$(aws sts get-caller-identity --query UserId --output text | cut -f1 -d':')
aws iam list-roles --query Roles[?RoleId==\`$RoleId\`].Arn
```
Once the trust policy is updated you can issues the `aws sts assume-role` command to get the access key id and secret key for the new role.

You can also something like this:
```
RoleId=$(aws sts get-caller-identity --query Arn --output text)
aws iam list-roles --query Roles[?RoleId==\`$RoleId\`].Arn
```

How to switch role in AWS CLI when logged in as an Identity Center user?

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