Assume

Getting started

Quickstart

Assume manages cloud sessions: you pick an identity, it generates short-lived credentials and keeps them fresh. Here's the five-minute path from nothing to a working session.

The five-minute path

  1. 01Download and install the desktop app — it's the engine everything else plugs into.
  2. 02Connect your access: add an AWS SSO integration or an IAM session, an Azure tenant, or a LocalStack endpoint.
  3. 03Start the session. Assume writes short-lived credentials where your tools expect them and rotates them until you stop it.
  4. 04Verify from any terminal:
Terminal
aws sts get-caller-identity

Where to go next

Add the CLI to drive sessions from scripts, or browse the full feature tour to see what each session type does.