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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Connecting Amazon Cognito to an external IdP – OIDC

Amazon Cognito user pools support the use of multiple external IdPs. It would be unusual, though not necessarily ill-advised, to connect the same external IdP to an Amazon Cognito user pool using both SAML and OIDC. We will connect our external IdP to OIDC in the interest of demonstrating how both protocols operate when used with an external IdP with a user pool. We'll proceed as follows:

From the user pool, we can select the type of federated provider we want to add under the Federations menu. We will select the OpenID Connect option. We can see a marker on the SAML option indicating an existing connection, as illustrated in the following screenshot:
Figure 12.21 – Selecting a new IdP for the user pool
In the following screenshot, we see the required fields for configuring the new OIDC IdP. As we do not have all of these values yet, this means that we will need to create a client that the Amazon Cognito...