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Implementing Identity Management on AWS

By : Jon Lehtinen
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Implementing Identity Management on AWS

By: Jon Lehtinen

Overview of this book

AWS identity management offers a powerful yet complex array of native capabilities and connections to existing enterprise identity systems for administrative and application identity use cases. This book breaks down the complexities involved by adopting a use-case-driven approach that helps identity and cloud engineers understand how to use the right mix of native AWS capabilities and external IAM components to achieve the business and security outcomes they want. You will begin by learning about the IAM toolsets and paradigms within AWS. This will allow you to determine how to best leverage them for administrative control, extending workforce identities to the cloud, and using IAM toolsets and paradigms on an app deployed on AWS. Next, the book demonstrates how to extend your on-premise administrative IAM capabilities to the AWS backplane, as well as how to make your workforce identities available for AWS-deployed applications. In the concluding chapters, you’ll learn how to use the native identity services with applications deployed on AWS. By the end of this IAM Amazon Web Services book, you will be able to build enterprise-class solutions for administrative and application identity using AWS IAM tools and external identity systems.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
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Section 1: IAM and AWS – Critical Concepts, Definitions, and Tools
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Section 2: Implementing IAM on AWS for Administrative Use Cases
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Section 3: Implementing IAM on AWS for Application Use Cases

Summary

In this chapter, we took a few moments to plan out our administrative model for an enterprise AWS deployment. We did this so we could accommodate the business requirements with a full understanding of the organization's IAM maturity and current-state capabilities, which will help us design administrative patterns that will be supportive in the long term. Once we had thought through the use cases, requirements, and capabilities, we designed and applied some high-level OU SCPs that will govern all the AWS accounts that we will be administrating moving forward.

We will build upon this foundational work in the next two chapters. First, in the next chapter, we will connect Redbeard Identity's external IDP and provision our administrative users into AWS SSO. Then, in Chapter 11, Bringing Your Users into AWS, we will address authentication and authorization use cases for those users into the AWS backplane.