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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 from the CLI

We usually tear down what we have built in the Management Console to address the steps to recreate it from the CLI. However, this is a situation where AWS Organizations and AWS SSO's tight coupling already addressed many of the initial creation steps required to begin the tasks that we would perform from the AWS SSO service. We functionally already created a new AWS SSO service and identity store when we created an AWS organization using the command line. What is left to us to do with the CLI involves user assignment to member accounts. As such, to get a full picture of how to create an AWS SSO instance from scratch, refer back to the AWS Organization in the AWS CLI section earlier in this chapter.

The CLI does not have many options for account management for the identity store. Unlike Amazon Cognito, which is a full-featured platform for application identity use cases, AWS SSO uses the identity store primarily as its attribute and credential...