What this book covers

Chapter 1, An Introduction to IAM and AWS IAM Concepts, introduces essential IAM concepts and AWS IAM as a suite of capabilities that provides user management and access control to AWS resources.

Chapter 2, An Introduction to the AWS CLI, introduces the AWS CLI, which is the primary programmatic method to interact with AWS resources.

Chapter 3, IAM User Management, addresses best practices around AWS user account security, life cycle management, governance, and authentication/password policies.

Chapter 4, Access Management, Policies, and Permissions, provides an overview of the authorization framework of AWS.

Chapter 5, Introducing Amazon Cognito, introduces Cognito and explores what it can do as an application identity service.

Chapter 6, Introduction to AWS Organizations and AWS Single Sign-On, explores the tools for applying organizational policies and managing access to multiple AWS accounts.

Chapter 7, Other AWS Identity Services, provides an overview of a few other identity and identity-adjacent services that, while important, did not get their own chapter.

Chapter 8, An Ounce of Prevention – Planning Your Administrative Model, provides guidance on designing an administrative and authorization policy model that addresses an organization’s use cases.

Chapter 9, Bringing Your Admins into the AWS Administrative Backplane, walks through methods for bringing existing administrative accounts into AWS.

Chapter 10, Administrative Single Sign-On to the AWS Backplane, walks through federated authentication into the AWS console for administrative accounts and methods for applying fine-grained access control.

Chapter 11, Bringing Your Users into AWS, examines the distinction between administrative and standard user accounts, explores solution architectures for bringing user accounts into AWS, and demonstrates how to extend an on-premises AD forest into AWS using a trust.

Chapter 12, AWS-Hosted Application Single Sign-On Using an Existing Identity Provider, addresses configuring an application with Cognito user pools against a federated provider and using identity pools to authorize users to interact with AWS services on behalf of the application.