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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

Now that you have gone through this chapter, you have everything you need to begin using the AWS CLI effectively. The AWS CLI is a powerful administrative tool for managing your AWS account. Whereas this was definitely not a comprehensive review of every command, feature, and function available to us in the CLI, the basic concepts and examples you have learned will give you the tools you need to learn about and solve nearly any challenge or use case you may require the use of the AWS CLI for.

We will put that knowledge to good use in the next chapter, and every remaining chapter, of this book. Next, we will take a deep dive into IAM user accounts. This will include the types of accounts and the different administrative requirements that each has. We will also look more closely at passwords, password policy, programmatic credentials, and multifactor credentials. Moreover, we will learn how to manage each and every one of those things using the AWS CLI.