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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Summary

Now that you have finished this chapter, you should be familiar with some of the additional identity and identity-adjacent capabilities you can use to solve identity challenges on AWS. AWS Directory Service supports Active Directory workloads on AWS and extends an organization's AD footprint into AWS. AWS Secrets Manager allows programmatic secret storage and rotation, while AWS Key Management Service allows you to manage cryptographic keys that are used for encryption. Finally, AWS CloudTrail acts as the audit log for all actions taken on AWS services, while Amazon CloudWatch acts as a logging and resource monitoring service.

This concludes this section of this book, where we looked at specific AWS services. The next section will see us pivot toward practically applying these services to solve an enterprise-grade identity use case. In the next chapter, we will plan what we intend to accomplish with our practical implementation by using enterprise-grade tools and design...