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Using Chrome 'Add Person' to allow multiple AWS accounts to be open at the same time
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One issue that I’ve had for a while has been being logged into multiple aws accounts at the same time with chrome. Incognito mode only works for 1 session, if you launch another incog session and log into another AWS account the first incog session is signed out. This is because incog sessions use the same profile and therefore share the same cookie.

I just discovered how to do this correctly and now have 3 different aws account consoles up at once. What i did was go to ‘chrome -> add person’ which launched a new browser session. I did not sign in. then I did that again. I logged into 3 different AWS accounts using the 3 different chrome profiles running without any trouble.

Now i have 3 different aws accounts open in independent chrome sessions. Under the people menu choice I see my account and then person 1 and person 2.

Maybe you all already knew this but i figured that i would pass it along just in case not.

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