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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

Logging and auditing

Unlike the identity services that merited their own chapters, or even the services we looked at earlier within this chapter, AWS CloudTrail and Amazon CloudWatch may not seem worth much of a mention. However, logging and auditing are essential components of non-repudiation. Non-repudiation is when we have assurances that something, such as an action, signature, or event, cannot be denied by a person. IAM ties the event, action, account, and others to the individual, and auditing and logging help prove that the event occurred.

We will quickly look at the two services AWS provides for audit and logging. The first is AWS CloudTrail, which captures the events that occur within an AWS account. The second is Amazon CloudWatch, which is a monitoring and logging service that can be used with AWS services and resources.

AWS CloudTrail

AWS CloudTrail captures events that occur within an AWS account to help us address compliance, governance, and operational and risk...