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Implementing Identity Management on AWS

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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800562288
Length 504 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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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 16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Understanding AWS Directory Service

Microsoft AD is a complex and feature-rich enterprise directory service. Beyond basic LDAP capabilities for user management and authentication, it can also be used for machine management, including device authentication and authorization, DNS, certificate authority services, endpoint policy management and enforcement, and federation services. Over the years, it has been positioned and marketed as a one-stop-shop for enterprise workloads. Unfortunately, the feature-richness that made AD an enterprise mainstay for over 20 years is also why it can become insecure or misconfigured. This is why AD implementations are at the heart of so many security incidents. Its monolithic nature, broad set of services, and wide network port utilization also make it a tempting target for bad actors and limit its capability to securely operate outside of an established network perimeter.

Though traditional on-premises AD may not be naturally suited for an internet...

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