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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Summary

Over the course of this chapter, we've learned the basics of IAM and seen it applied to a typical enterprise worker scenario. We also learned about the AWS IAM service, and how it applies IAM to AWS itself. Additionally, we learned about the types of objects managed by the AWS IAM service and got a high-level overview of how AWS IAM uses authentication, authorization, and request context to evaluate every request that comes into an AWS account. Finally, we took a tour of the IAM dashboard inside of the AWS Management Console and created our first non-root administrative user.

The next chapter will introduce us to an alternate method for interacting with our AWS account – the AWS CLI. We will learn how to install and configure it on Windows and macOS/Linux, including setting up different profiles for different use cases. We'll also examine the command syntax and get introduced to some tools that will help us discover command syntax and administrate objects. By the end of the chapter, we will have learned how to make programmatic calls to an AWS account.