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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

Who this book is for

Identity on AWS may be well-trodden ground, but that doesn’t make it any more inviting for the uninitiated. AWS’ own documentation, while comprehensive, can be abstruse to those who are not approaching the platform or their own use case from a developer’s perspective. The experience of many enterprise IAM practitioners is being thrown into the deep end to figure out how to solve a business identity problem on AWS through an implementation. With so many services appearing to offer such similar capabilities for similar use cases, getting up to speed, especially under a deadline, can be daunting.

This book was written to introduce IAM practitioners to identity on AWS with a use case-driven perspective. By using the language, patterns, and perspective of an enterprise identity practitioner, I aim to make this topic much more approachable.