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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

Now that you have finished this chapter, you should be familiar with some of the additional identity and identity-adjacent capabilities you can use to solve identity challenges on AWS. AWS Directory Service supports Active Directory workloads on AWS and extends an organization's AD footprint into AWS. AWS Secrets Manager allows programmatic secret storage and rotation, while AWS Key Management Service allows you to manage cryptographic keys that are used for encryption. Finally, AWS CloudTrail acts as the audit log for all actions taken on AWS services, while Amazon CloudWatch acts as a logging and resource monitoring service.

This concludes this section of this book, where we looked at specific AWS services. The next section will see us pivot toward practically applying these services to solve an enterprise-grade identity use case. In the next chapter, we will plan what we intend to accomplish with our practical implementation by using enterprise-grade tools and design...