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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

This was another tremendously long chapter filled with a ton of information. That said, this truly was only an introduction. AWS SSO has only recently become the strategic cornerstone for multi-account AWS account management in conjunction with AWS Organizations, and new best practices and patterns are still being established. That said, we learned how AWS Organizations is used to both bring existing accounts under centralized management as well as to provision net-new accounts within an organization. AWS SSO provides authentication and authorization for those accounts, as well as to third-party SaaS providers and AWS applications. Access to AWS accounts is governed by permission sets, which provide the template for the local AWS IAM roles that the users will assume in the target AWS accounts through identity federation.

The next chapter will provide a high-level overview of the remaining identity and identity-adjacent services that we need to be familiar with when implementing...