Switching roles with AWS Organizations

In this recipe, we will learn how to switch from the master account to a member account from within the console. Switching between accounts from the console without having to log out from AWS is a great feature that is used extensively in many organizations. For example, a user may be given a basic user in one account and they can switch to other accounts with the appropriate roles (for example, Admin for Dev and ReadOnly for Prod).

Getting ready

We need to create a master account and a child account with AWS Organizations. We can do this by following the Creating a master account for AWS Organizations and Creating a new account under an Organization recipes of this chapter.

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