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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

Creating an Amazon Cognito user pool

We will create an Amazon Cognito user pool using the Management Console. To do this, follow these steps:

  1. Go to the Amazon Cognito service within the Management Console.
  2. Click the Manage User Pools button.
  3. This takes us to a listing of all the user pools that have currently been set up inside our AWS account. Since we have not configured any inside this account, it should be empty:

    Figure 5.9 – Our empty list of Cognito user pools

  4. Click the Create a user pool button to start creating our first pool. We will immediately be prompted for a pool name and given options for either reviewing the default configuration recommended by AWS or stepping through the configuration one step at a time. Selecting the Review defaults option will simply skip us to the Review page, so let's select Step through settings and see what options are available to us. Since we are not overly creative, we will call our first pool rbipool and proceed...