You can also use your existing corporate usernames, passwords, and multi-factor authentication devices to securely access your EC2 windows instances, without having to enter your credentials multiple times. You can create and administer users in AWS IAM Identity Center or an AWS IAM Identity Center supported identity provider (such as Okta, Ping, and OneLogin), and provide a one-click IAM Identity Center to your EC2 Windows instances from the AWS Fleet Manager console.

The new experience utilizes your existing identity solutions to run and manage your Microsoft Windows workloads on AWS. We took on this update to respond to customer feedback around creating a more streamlined experience for administrators and users to more securely access their EC2 Windows instances. Today, we’re launching new functionality that simplifies the experience to securely access your AWS compute instances running Microsoft Windows. September 12, 2022: This blog post has been updated to reflect the new name of AWS Single Sign-On (SSO) – AWS IAM Identity Center. September 23, 2022: This blog post has been updated with correction on sample custom permissions policy download URL.

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