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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What is Amazon Cognito?

Amazon Cognito provides identity management, user authentication, and authorization for web applications. Amazon Cognito is a service that externalizes the components for application user identity management and authorization for application developers who do not wish to manage those items within the context of their own application. The Amazon Cognito service, within a given AWS account, can accommodate several distinct collections of user accounts, called pools. While Amazon Cognito is an identity service, it is distinct from AWS IAM in terms of its purpose and functionality. However, there are use cases and design patterns where Amazon Cognito and AWS IAM interact:

Figure 5.1 – The Amazon Cognito service from within the Management Console

Like nearly everything else in AWS, Amazon Cognito can be fully configured using both the Administrative Console and the AWS CLI. As shown in the preceding screenshot, Amazon Cognito offers...