AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional — Question 522

An organization has created 5 IAM users. The organization wants to give them the same login ID but different passwords. How can the organization achieve this?

Answer options

• A. The organization should create each user in a separate region so that they have their own URL to login
• B. The organization should create a separate login ID but give the IAM users the same alias so that each one can login with their alias
• C. It is not possible to have the same login ID for multiple IAM users of the same account
• D. The organization should create various groups and add each user with the same login ID to different groups. The user can login with their own group ID

Correct answer: C

Explanation

Within a single AWS account, IAM user names must be unique because IAM is a global service, meaning users are not bound to specific regions. Consequently, options involving region-specific configurations or group-based isolation cannot bypass this uniqueness constraint. Therefore, it is impossible to have multiple IAM users with the same login ID under one account.