AWS IAM Identity Center

4 engineers on Hacker News describe using AWS IAM Identity Center first-hand: 1 endorse it, 0 regret it, 0 are mixed.

67%trust
4first-hand users
4in production
endorse 1mixed 0regret 0uses, no opinion

“IAM Identity Center (was just called SSO before the rename) with a short session duration -- we do 8-hour max with MFA at login -- handles the traveling employee case cleanly.”

endorse · production · matrixgard · 2026-03-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“we use AWS SSO from the CLI to authenticate against AWS (short-lived tokens)”

neutral · production · gojkoa · 2026-10-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“we recently adopted AWS Single Sign-On and EC2 Instance Connect.”

neutral · production · chakspak · 2021-12-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Can't connect via aws login at the cli since we use SSO and that seems to be down.”

neutral · production · grumple · 2021-12-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?