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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

Exploring the AWS CLI basics

In this section, we will get introduced to the AWS CLI utility. We will learn what it is used for, how to install it on various operating systems, and how to configure it for use with our AWS account.

What is the AWS CLI?

The AWS CLI is a command-line utility that enables programmatic access to the services in your AWS account. After you sign in to the AWS Management Console with an IAM user (or assume an IAM role), the actions you take within the console to look at the objects within each service, create new objects, or delete existing objects are all called via backend APIs invoked through your interactions with that GUI. The AWS CLI is another mechanism to administrate your AWS account, services, and resources just like you do in the Management Console. You authenticate yourself by presenting the credentials of an IAM user or with a session token and assumed role. You can list all of the services available to you based on your authorization, create...