# Managing teams
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Using *teams* enables you to grant permissions to a group of users at the same time. You can also set up team sync to automatically synchronize team membership between your Grafana workspace and your authorization provider.

## Creating or removing a team
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Create teams to manage users in groups.

**To create a team**

1. In the sidebar, choose the **Configuration**(gear) icon, and choose **Teams**.

1. Choose **New team**.

1. For **Name**, enter a name for the new team, and then choose **Create**.

**To remove a team**

1. In the sidebar, choose the **Configuration** (gear) icon, and choose **Teams**.

1. To the right of the team's name, choose **X**.

1. To confirm, choose **Delete**.

## Adding or removing a user from a team
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Use these steps to add users to teams or remove them from teams.

**To add a user to a team**

1. In the sidebar, choose the **Configuration** (gear) icon, and choose **Teams**.

1. Choose the team that you want to add the user to.

1. Choose **Add member**.

1. In the **Add team member** box, select the user to add to the team, and then choose **Add to team**.

**To remove a user from a team**

1. In the sidebar, choose the **Configuration** (gear) icon, and choose **Teams**.

1. Choose the team that you want to remove the user from.

1. To the right of the user's name, choose **X**.

1. To confirm, choose **Delete**.

## Using team sync
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With *team sync*, you can set up synchronization between your authorization provider’s groups and the teams in Grafana. The authorization providers currently supported are IAM Identity Center and SAML. 

**To synchronize a Grafana team with an external group.**

1. In the Grafana console, navigate to **Configuration**, **Teams**. 

1. To synchronize with an IAM Identity Center group, enter the IAM Identity Center group ID. To synchronize with a group from a SAML based identity provider, enter the value of the attribute name entered in the **Assersion attribute groups** field in SAML configuration section on the Amazon Managed Grafana workspace configuration page.

1. Choose **Add group**.