# How to design emergency role, account, and group mapping
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The following diagram shows how to map your emergency access groups to roles in your emergency access account. The diagram also shows the cross-account role trust relationships that enable emergency access account roles to access corresponding roles in your workload accounts. We recommend that your emergency plan design use these mappings as a starting point.

![\[IAM Identity Center workflow: map emergency access groups to roles in emergency account.\]](http://docs.amazonaws.cn/en_us/singlesignon/latest/userguide/images/emergency-access-mapping.png)