# Switching Amazon Web Services Regions
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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. For more information, see [Considerations for choosing an Amazon Web Services Region](identity-center-region-considerations.md).

You can switch your IAM Identity Center Region only by [deleting your current IAM Identity Center instance](delete-config.md) and creating an instance in another Region. If you already enabled an Amazon managed application with your existing IAM Identity Center instance, disable the application before deleting IAM Identity Center. For instructions on disabling Amazon managed applications, see [Disabling an Amazon managed application](awsapps-remove.md). 

**Note**  
If you are considering switching your IAM Identity Center Region to enable the deployment of an Amazon managed application in another Region, consider replicating your IAM Identity Center instance to that Region instead. For more information, see [Using IAM Identity Center across multiple Amazon Web Services Regions](multi-region-iam-identity-center.md).

**Configuration considerations in the new Region**  
 You must recreate users, groups, permission sets, applications, and assignments in the new IAM Identity Center instance. You can use the IAM Identity Center account and application assignment [APIs](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/singlesignon/latest/APIReference/welcome.html) to get a snapshot of your configuration and then use that snapshot to rebuild your configuration in a new Region. Switching to a different Region also changes the URL for the [Amazon Web Services access portal](using-the-portal.md), which provides your users with single sign-on access to their Amazon Web Services accounts and applications. You might also need to recreate some IAM Identity Center configuration through the Management Console of your new instance.