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Identity Center vs IAM user for humans?

What is a VPC: your own private network inside one AWS Region, example ThreeTierVpc 10.0.0.0/16.

Identity Center vs IAM user for humans? Identity Center: one login, temporary roles via permission sets across accounts. IAM user: long-lived identity usually scoped to one account. Fleets of IAM users do not scale and encourage access keys. Prefer Identity Center for workforce access. Example: one IC user in group Developers with PowerUser on dev and ReadOnly on prod — not two IAM users with keys
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What it is

Identity Center: one login, temporary roles via permission sets across accounts. IAM user: long-lived identity usually scoped to one account.

Why it matters

Fleets of IAM users do not scale and encourage access keys. Prefer Identity Center for workforce access.

Prefer Identity Center

How / example

Example: one IC user in group Developers with PowerUser on dev and ReadOnly on prod — not two IAM users with keys.

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