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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

Configuring AWS SSO in the Management Console

In this section, we will configure AWS SSO to be an identity provider using the Management Console. For this exercise, we will set up AWS SSO as the identity store and identity provider without connecting it to any pre-existing installations, as those scenarios will be explored more fully in Chapters 10 and 12. Our objective here is to become familiar with the service and its basic administration before we leap into those other deployment patterns.

As usual, we start by signing into our Management Console. If we have not configured the AWS SSO service with this account, we are greeted with a screen that invites us to enable the service:

Figure 6.42 – The AWS SSO activation banner

The banner informs us that when we enable AWS SSO, we will allow it to create AWS IAM roles for each of the AWS accounts within our AWS organization. It also warns us that those organization member accounts will be able to assign...