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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've made it through this chapter, you should be familiar with the basics of AWS access management. Though we've reviewed the high-level components we need in order to be conversant on this topic and move forward, it is prudent to be cautious when it comes to access management and entitlements. Many security incidents that stem from excessive entitlements having been applied in an environment in the name of expediency. As such, consider this chapter a primer on learning how to learn more deeply about this topic, and consider the access management challenges that will surface throughout the remainder of this book.

The next chapter will see us shift from purely focusing on AWS IAM and looking at AWS as an infrastructure as a service offering. AWS Cognito is a service designed to offer applications simplified identity services, including user management, authentication, and authorization. Whereas we will reference many of the topics we introduced at the...