How do I use the IAM Identity Center and the AWS access portal?

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IAM Identity Center users can use the AWS access portal to access AWS accounts and cloud applications.

Important: Make sure that you assigned user access to cloud applications in IAM Identity Center and set up single sign-on access to applications.

To access and use the AWS access portal, complete the following steps:

1. Open the IAM Identity Center console
2. Choose the AWS Region where you enabled IAM Identity Center.
3. Choose Dashboard.
4. Under AWS access portal URL, choose either the Default IPv4 only URL or the Dual-stack URL to access your AWS access portal.
   Note: If you require IPv6 connectivity, then use the dual-stack URL because it supports both IPv4 and IPv6.
5. Sign in to the AWS access portal.
   Note: IAM Identity Center users use the user credentials for the directory that's configured in the IAM Identity Center to access the AWS access portal.
6. Use the AWS access portal to access cloud applications or accounts in AWS Organizations.
7. Sign out of the AWS access portal.

Note: IAM Identity Center has two configurable session durations. By default, permissions credential session is set to one hour. You can customize the session duration from 1 to 12 hours. By default, AWS access portal session is set to 8 hours. You can customize the session duration from 15 minutes to 90 days.

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