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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

Using the AWS CLI

Now that we have our profiles set up, let's begin exploring how we can use the AWS CLI to do things inside of our AWS account. Unfortunately, the AWS CLI does not have a standard syntax of verbs similar to what you may be familiar with if you have ever worked with RESTful protocols; there is no command structure that is universal across every AWS service accessible from the CLI that can be recalled by applying a verb-like operator against a service. So, in a RESTful service, you may have a format such as the following:

However, the AWS CLI has specific operations available on a per-service basis that will not align service to service. However, the syntax across all of the operations across the services does follow a basic syntax:

The emphasis here is on the N+1 options or parameters that can quickly pile up depending upon the specific commands you are issuing. The preceding two examples are relatively simple...