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 10: Administrative Single Sign-On to the AWS Backplane

In the previous chapter, we built out the provisioning and account synchronization processes between our Amazon Web Services (AWS) environment and the Redbeard Identity organization's existing identity provider (IDP). Our administrative users are now synchronized to the AWS single sign-on (SSO) user directory from our external IDP using the System for Cross-domain Identity Management (SCIM). Of course, populating the AWS SSO user store is only half of the administrative access equation. Next, we will address administrative user authentication and authorization to ensure that each administrator can only access the environment that is appropriate for them.

The following topics will be covered in this chapter:

Why use federation for AWS administrators?—Learn why identity federation is a good pattern for managing administrator access into the AWS control plane
Assigning access to AWS accounts—...