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> You move between accounts with AWS SSO (now IAM Federation) - No more password per account

The only thing I really hate about this is that it is tied/bound to your browser. If you switch browsers or use an incognito window you have to through the whole dance of setting up your account switching set up. Imagine you're in multiple orgs that are set up this way...

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Firefox Containers is a great way to handle this. I usually only need to log into 3 or 4 accounts, max, at the same time. I have AWS Containers 1-4 setup for just that.

I do the same.

Pro tip time!

You can use this ext and accompanying cli tool to launch URLs in a container.

https://github.com/honsiorovskyi/open-url-in-container

Couple that with aws-vault login link generator.

Then pipe thru fzf.

Now you have a quick script to open an aws profile in a new container. Containers don’t even need to exist and can be created on the fly.

I just craft the name like “aws-$profile”.

Chrome user profiles each have their own cookies and work quite well for this.

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