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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

Chapter 7: Other AWS Identity Services

We are coming to the end of this section, where we have introduced and explored the identity services that are available on AWS. The two previous chapters deep dived into the customer and enterprise identity services, but in this chapter, we will be taking a slightly different approach. This chapter will provide a brief overview of several additional identity and identity-adjacent services. While familiarity with these services and their use cases is an important part of a well-rounded education for implementing identity on AWS, these services don't merit as deep a dive, nor as much of a practical exploration for our purposes, before we move on to the next section of this book.

The first service we will look at is AWS Directory Service. This service primarily deals with supporting Active Directory (AD) workloads on AWS and extending an organization's (organization meaning enterprise, not organization as in AWS Organization) AD footprint...