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Services or capabilities described in Amazon Web Services documentation might vary by Region. To see the differences applicable to the China Regions, see Getting Started with Amazon Web Services in China (PDF).

Amazon IAM Identity Center Region availability

IAM Identity Center is available in several commonly used Amazon Web Services Regions. This availability makes it easier for you to configure user access to multiple Amazon Web Services accounts and business applications. When your users sign in to the Amazon Web Services access portal, they can select the Amazon Web Services account to which they have permissions, and then access the Amazon Web Services Management Console. For a full list of the Amazon Web Services Regions that IAM Identity Center supports, see IAM Identity Center endpoints and quotas.

IAM Identity Center Region data

When you first enable IAM Identity Center, all the data that you configure in IAM Identity Center is stored in the Region where you configured it. This data includes directory configurations, permission sets, application instances, and user assignments to Amazon Web Services account applications. If you are using the IAM Identity Center identity store, all users and groups that you create in IAM Identity Center are also stored in the same Region. We recommend that you install IAM Identity Center in a Region that you intend to keep available for users, not a Region that you might need to disable.

Amazon Organizations supports only one Amazon Web Services Region at a time. To enable IAM Identity Center in a different Region, you must first delete your current IAM Identity Center configuration. Switching to a different Region also changes the URL for the Amazon Web Services access portal, and you must reconfigure all permission sets and assignments.

Cross-Region calls

When attempting to sign-in with one-time password (OTP) as a second authentication factor and for certain identity and credential management events, such as when the user is invited to set up an initial password, verify an email address, and reset their password, IAM Identity Center in China (Beijing) Region makes cross-Region API calls to China (Ningxia) Region to send emails. In these cross-Region calls, user attributes include:

  • Email address

  • First name

  • Last name

  • Amazon Web Services account in Amazon Organizations

  • Amazon Web Services access portal URL

  • Username

  • Directory ID

  • User ID

Most Amazon Web Services Regions are enabled for operations in all Amazon services by default. Those
 Regions are automatically activated for use with IAM Identity Center. The following Amazon Web Services Regions are opt-in Regions and you must enable them:

  • Africa (Cape Town)

  • Asia Pacific (Hong Kong)

  • Asia Pacific (Jakarta)

  • Asia Pacific (Melbourne)

  • Asia Pacific (Hyderabad)

  • Europe (Milan)

  • Europe (Zurich)

  • Europe (Spain)

  • Israel (Tel Aviv)

  • Middle East (Bahrain)

  • Middle East (UAE)

When you enable IAM Identity Center for a management account in an opt-in Amazon Web Services Region, the following IAM Identity Center metadata for any member accounts is stored in the Region.

  • Account ID

  • Account name

  • Account email

  • Amazon Resource Names (ARNs) of the IAM roles that IAM Identity Center creates in the member account

If you disable a Region in which IAM Identity Center is installed, IAM Identity Center is also disabled. After IAM Identity Center is disabled in a Region, users in that Region won’t have single sign-on access to Amazon Web Services accounts and applications. Amazon retains the data in your IAM Identity Center configuration for at least 10 days. If you re-enable IAM Identity Center within this time frame, your IAM Identity Center configuration data will still be available in the Region.

To re-enable IAM Identity Center in opt-in Amazon Web Services Regions, you must re-enable the Region. Because IAM Identity Center must reprocess all paused events again, re-enabling IAM Identity Center might take some time.

Note

IAM Identity Center can manage access only to the Amazon Web Services accounts that are enabled for use in an Amazon Web Services Region. To manage access across all accounts in your organization, enable IAM Identity Center in the management account in an Amazon Web Services Region that is automatically activated for use with IAM Identity Center.

For more information about enabling and disabling Amazon Web Services Regions, see Managing Amazon Web Services Regions in the Amazon General Reference.

Delete your IAM Identity Center configuration

When an IAM Identity Center configuration is deleted, all the data in that configuration is deleted and can't be recovered. The following table describes what data is deleted based on the directory type that is currently configured in IAM Identity Center.

What data gets deleted

Connected directory

(Amazon Managed Microsoft AD or AD Connector)

 IAM Identity Center identity store

All permission sets you have configured for Amazon Web Services accounts

 ✓ ✓

All applications you have configured in IAM Identity Center

 ✓ ✓
All user assignments you have configured for Amazon Web Services accounts and applications ✓ ✓
All users and groups in the directory or store N/A ✓

Use the following procedure when you need to delete your current IAM Identity Center configuration.

To delete your IAM Identity Center configuration

  1. Open the IAM Identity Center console.

  2. In the left navigation pane, choose Settings.

  3. On the Settings page, choose the Management tab.

  4. In the Delete IAM Identity Center configuration section, choose Delete.

  5. In the Delete IAM Identity Center configuration dialog, select each of the check boxes to acknowledge you understand that your data that will be deleted. Type your IAM Identity Center instance in the text box, and then choose Confirm.