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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)
1
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

Defining our organization's identity source

In the previous chapter, we were introduced to the Redbeard Identity organization. Based upon that organization's business requirements, organizational structure, current identity capabilities, and account attribute schema, we designed an administrative model for our AWS organization:

Figure 9.1 – The Redbeard Identity AWS organization admin model

Now that we know how we want AWS accounts to be created and managed, it is time to connect the existing identity provider to the AWS SSO service so that we can bring our administrators into their respective AWS administrative backplanes. Though we won't dive into the details of administrative user authentication and authorization until Chapter 10, Administrative Single Sign-On to the AWS Backplane, connecting an external identity provider to the AWS SSO service is a prerequisite for either a just-in-time provisioning and account linking model or for...