# Viewing and ending your active session
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You can use your AWS access portal to view the list of your active sessions, and if required, end one or more sessions. 

**End your active session using your AWS access portal**

1. Sign in to your AWS access portal. For more information, see [Signing in to the AWS access portal](howtosignin.md).

1. Near the top-right of the page, choose **Security**.

1. On the **Security** page, the number in parentheses next to **Active sessions** indicates how many active sessions you have. Select the check box next to each session that you want to end, and then choose **End sessions**.
**Tip**  
For user background session, you can search for sessions by the Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the job that is using the session. In the **Session type** list, choose **User background sessions**, and then enter the job ARN in the search box.

   You can only end active sessions that are loaded. If you have many sessions, choose **Load more active sessions** to display additional sessions.

1. Select the check box next to each session that you want to end, and then choose **End sessions**.

1. A dialog box appears that confirms you are ending active sessions. Review the information, and if you want to continue, type `confirm`, and then choose **End sessions**.

1. You are returned to your list of active sessions. A green notification message appears to indicate that the selected sessions were successfully ended.