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How to design your critical operations roles

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How to design your critical operations roles - AWS IAM Identity Center

With this design, you configure a single AWS account in which you federate through IAM, so that users can assume critical operations roles. The critical operations roles have a trust policy that enables users to assume a corresponding role in your workload accounts. The roles in the workload accounts provide the permissions that users require to perform essential work.

The following diagram provides a design overview.

IAM Identity Center: create trust policy, emergency role for essential work in emergency account.
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