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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Provisioning administrative accounts in AWS – SCIM provisioning

System for Cross-domain Identity (SCIM) provisioning is a standards-based RESTful account provisioning service that sends account information in a standardized JSON format. When we enable automatic provisioning with SCIM, the directory objects that we specify for our IDP to synchronize in the user store for our AWS SSO service will automatically be created, updated, and deleted, in tandem with their counterparts inside the user store of our external IDP.

How SCIM works

Before we enable SCIM for our example use case, let's take a quick look at how SCIM operates:

Figure 9.17 – SCIM create and update flows

The SCIM provisioning flows for creating and updating accounts are rather straightforward:

The IDP that acts as the authoritative source for provisioning in the service provider's user store pushes the accounts and attributes based on that service provider...