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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Exploring the AWS CLI basics

In this section, we will get introduced to the AWS CLI utility. We will learn what it is used for, how to install it on various operating systems, and how to configure it for use with our AWS account.

What is the AWS CLI?

The AWS CLI is a command-line utility that enables programmatic access to the services in your AWS account. After you sign in to the AWS Management Console with an IAM user (or assume an IAM role), the actions you take within the console to look at the objects within each service, create new objects, or delete existing objects are all called via backend APIs invoked through your interactions with that GUI. The AWS CLI is another mechanism to administrate your AWS account, services, and resources just like you do in the Management Console. You authenticate yourself by presenting the credentials of an IAM user or with a session token and assumed role. You can list all of the services available to you based on your authorization, create...