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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What is AWS SSO?

AWS SSO is another IDaaS capability available from AWS, similar in some regards to Amazon Cognito. Whereas Amazon Cognito provides application identity capabilities, AWS SSO facilitates centralized administration for federated access to AWS accounts, as well as general identity provider capabilities. AWS SSO offers free account management, authentication services, and a strong authentication capability for AWS accounts and applications managed under an AWS organization. AWS SSO users can authenticate to one or more AWS accounts using either accounts and credentials managed by AWS SSO itself, or through accounts synched from an external authoritative source, such as an enterprise-managed directory and identity provider.

We mentioned that one of the primary use cases of AWS SSO was centralized user management and federated authentication to all AWS accounts within an AWS organization. We discussed AWS Organizations briefly at the end of Chapter 3, IAM User Management...