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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)
1
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

Section 2: Implementing IAM on AWS for Administrative Use Cases

This section will help you conceptualize how to use the previously introduced AWS IAM services to solve common enterprise identity use cases, and will provide references and guidance on their implementation. Each chapter will iterate upon the capabilities of a hypothetical deployment, so you will be able to easily relate these concepts to your own environments, and see how they expand upon one another and interrelate. 

This part of the book comprises the following chapters:

  • Chapter 8, An Ounce of Prevention – Planning Your Administrative Model
  • Chapter 9, Bringing Your Admins into the AWS Administrative Backplane
  • Chapter 10, Administrative Single Sign-On to the AWS Backplane