Does Granted support AWS Console multi-session feature?

[rtomadpg]

Hi there, daily user here, I like your tool, appreciate it! 👍

AWS has released a feature we've all been waiting for: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2025/01/aws-management-console-simultaneous-sign-in-multiple-accounts/

It sounds to null the need to use Firefox with its Containers feature, but when I tried changing the browser Granted uses to Chrome, it does not seem to work. I get the console session in a fresh Chrome window and multi-session support is disabled. While multi-session is enabled in my primary Chrome window. Maybe it's me, or maybe granted does not yet support this feature? Thanks!

[chrnorm]

Thanks for the kind words and glad to hear you're getting good use from Granted :)

No, unfortunately Granted does not yet support this feature.

I think it's possible that we could support this for IAM Identity Center sessions by leveraging the shortcut link feature.

Rather than opening the console directly, we could open up the following web page in users' browsers:

https://example.awsapps.com/start/#/console?account_id=123456789012&role_name=AWSAdministratorAccess

which would then cause a new session to begin.

I am unsure how we'd be able to support this for IAM users.

I'll also note that the UX isn't great at the moment for multi-session support. If we try to open a 6th session we get a page like this:

After choosing a session to remove you need to go back and log in again to use the new session. IMO ideally AWS would automatically evict the oldest session and open the page automatically rather than forcing us to go back and forth.