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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 hosted UI

Amazon Cognito offers a customizable hosted UI for user sign-in and sign-up. We can see the default UI by opening the link at the bottom of each app client, under the App client settings menu inside our user pool:

Figure 5.42 – The hosted UI is available from the App Client details form

This is the default sign-in form:

Figure 5.43 – Amazon Cognito user pool's default form

If we wish to offer a branded experience, we can go to the UI customization menu in our pool and adjust the colors, border padding, and other CSS elements to adjust the look and feel of this hosted service so that it aligns with our own website. Amazon Cognito offers the option to run several different versions of the hosted UI, with distinct branding applied to a specific application client ID:

Figure 5.44 – Customization options for the hosted UI

Let's add a simple, and admittedly ugly...