Kiro IDE First Launch

First Launch

1. Kiro shows Choose a way to sign in/sign up with four options: Google, GitHub, AWS Builder ID, and Your organization. For this guide, click Your organization and sign in with your work/organization identity (the same account you use for AWS IAM Identity Center / SSO). The other options also work if that is how your team normally uses Kiro.

2. On Sign in with your organization, click Sign in via IAM Identity Center instead (bottom of the screen).

3. On Sign in with AWS IAM Identity Center, enter your organization’s Start URL and Region (from your AWS administrator or Identity Center portal), then click Continue and complete browser sign-in.
   • Start URL: <YOUR_SSO_START_URL> (e.g. https://d-1234567890.awsapps.com/start)
   • Region: <YOUR_SSO_REGION> (e.g. ap-southeast-2)

4. After browser sign-in, you may see Allow Kiro IDE to access your data? — click Allow access to finish linking Kiro to your organization identity.

5. Verify sign-in worked — open your Kiro account / usage panel (account menu → credits or usage). Check the Credits line:

   • 50 credits (default) — you are on the free tier, not your organization’s subscription. Sign-in succeeded, but Kiro is not using your org plan. Confirm you chose Your organization → Sign in via IAM Identity Center with the correct Start URL and Region, or ask your administrator whether your org has Kiro provisioned.
   • Organization subscription — you should see your org name (e.g. Kiro Enterprise), a plan badge (e.g. Kiro Pro), and credits such as X used / Y covered in plan (not the default 50). That confirms org Identity Center sign-in and subscription are active.

WSL remote windows are separate. Sign-in here applies to the Windows Kiro window only. You will need to re-sign in the WSL window later.

6. Close Kiro for now — extensions are installed in the next section.

Note: Kiro IDE is built on the VS Code platform. Install the extensions from the Kiro IDE Extensions page via Kiro’s Extensions panel (Ctrl+Shift+X).