You're reading from Implementing Identity Management on AWS A real-world guide to solving customer and workforce IAM challenges in your AWS cloud environments

Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800562288

Length 504 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

AWS

Concepts

Identity Management

Author (1):

Jon Lehtinen

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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: IAM and AWS – Critical Concepts, Definitions, and Tools

2. Chapter 1: An Introduction to IAM and AWS IAM Concepts FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: An Introduction to the AWS CLI

4. Chapter 3: IAM User Management

5. Chapter 4: Access Management, Policies, and Permissions

6. Chapter 5: Introducing Amazon Cognito

7. Chapter 6: Introduction to AWS Organizations and AWS Single Sign-On

8. Chapter 7: Other AWS Identity Services

9. Section 2: Implementing IAM on AWS for Administrative Use Cases

10. Chapter 8: An Ounce of Prevention – Planning Your Administrative Model

11. Chapter 9: Bringing Your Admins into the AWS Administrative Backplane

12. Chapter 10: Administrative Single Sign-On to the AWS Backplane

13. Section 3: Implementing IAM on AWS for Application Use Cases

14. Chapter 11: Bringing Your Users into AWS

15. Chapter 12: AWS-Hosted Application Single Sign-On Using an Existing Identity Provider

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Defining the use case and solution architecture

Before we begin connecting applications, user pools, and external IdPs, let's take a moment and visualize the solution we intend to build for the use case we want to solve. Once again, we have some familiar components in play for the Redbeard Identity organization, as shown in the following diagram:

Figure 12.1 – Application references Cognito, which looks to the external IdP

In this design, the application will look to an Amazon Cognito user pool for its user information. The user pool will act as the application's user store, and detailed attributes will be provided at authentication time through the Amazon Cognito identity token. Since Amazon Cognito user pools provide a standards-compliant OIDC IdP, additional attributes can be accessed through the /userinfo endpoint as needed, if the application is sufficiently entitled and scoped to have that access. In order to ensure that the Redbeard...