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 our organization's identity source

In the previous chapter, we were introduced to the Redbeard Identity organization. Based upon that organization's business requirements, organizational structure, current identity capabilities, and account attribute schema, we designed an administrative model for our AWS organization:

Figure 9.1 – The Redbeard Identity AWS organization admin model

Now that we know how we want AWS accounts to be created and managed, it is time to connect the existing identity provider to the AWS SSO service so that we can bring our administrators into their respective AWS administrative backplanes. Though we won't dive into the details of administrative user authentication and authorization until Chapter 10, Administrative Single Sign-On to the AWS Backplane, connecting an external identity provider to the AWS SSO service is a prerequisite for either a just-in-time provisioning and account linking model or for...