# Step 8: Test the end user experience
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To verify the end user can successfully access the end user console view and launch your product, sign in to AWS as the end user and perform those tasks.

**To verify that the end user can access the end user console**

1. Follow the instructions to [Sign in as an IAM user](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/console.html) in the *IAM User guide*. 

1.  In the menu bar, choose the AWS Region in which you created the `Engineering Tools` portfolio. For this tutorial, choose **us-east-1 region**.

1. Open the AWS Service Catalog console at [https://console.aws.amazon.com/servicecatalog/](https://console.aws.amazon.com/servicecatalog/) to see:
   + **Products** – The products that the user can use.
   + **Provisioned products** – The provisioned products that the user has launched.

**To verify the end user can launch the Linux Desktop product**

Note that for this tutorial, choose** us-east-1 region**.

1. In the **Products** section of the console, choose **Linux Desktop**.

1. Choose **Launch product** to start the wizard that configures your product.

1. On the **Launch: Linux Desktop** page, enter **Linux-Desktop** for the provisioned product name.

1. On the **Parameters** page, enter the following and choose **Next**:
   +  **Server size** – Choose **t2.micro**. 
   +  **Key pair** – Select the key pair that you created in [Step 2: Create a key pair](getstarted-keypair.md).
   +  **CIDR range** – Enter a valid CIDR range for the IP address to connect to the instance. You can use the default value (0.0.0.0/0) to allow access from any IP address, then your IP address, followed by **/32** to restrict access to your IP address only, or something in between.

1. Choose **Launch product **to launch the stack. The console displays the stack details page for the Linux-Desktop stack. The initial status of the product is **Under change**. It takes several minutes for AWS Service Catalog to launch the product. To see the current status, refresh your browser. After the product launches, the status is A**vailable**.