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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Chapter 7: Other AWS Identity Services

We are coming to the end of this section, where we have introduced and explored the identity services that are available on AWS. The two previous chapters deep dived into the customer and enterprise identity services, but in this chapter, we will be taking a slightly different approach. This chapter will provide a brief overview of several additional identity and identity-adjacent services. While familiarity with these services and their use cases is an important part of a well-rounded education for implementing identity on AWS, these services don't merit as deep a dive, nor as much of a practical exploration for our purposes, before we move on to the next section of this book.

The first service we will look at is AWS Directory Service. This service primarily deals with supporting Active Directory (AD) workloads on AWS and extending an organization's (organization meaning enterprise, not organization as in AWS Organization) AD footprint...