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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

Chapter 10: Administrative Single Sign-On to the AWS Backplane

In the previous chapter, we built out the provisioning and account synchronization processes between our Amazon Web Services (AWS) environment and the Redbeard Identity organization's existing identity provider (IDP). Our administrative users are now synchronized to the AWS single sign-on (SSO) user directory from our external IDP using the System for Cross-domain Identity Management (SCIM). Of course, populating the AWS SSO user store is only half of the administrative access equation. Next, we will address administrative user authentication and authorization to ensure that each administrator can only access the environment that is appropriate for them.

The following topics will be covered in this chapter:

  • Why use federation for AWS administrators?—Learn why identity federation is a good pattern for managing administrator access into the AWS control plane
  • Assigning access to AWS accounts—...