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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Using the AWS CLI

Now that we have our profiles set up, let's begin exploring how we can use the AWS CLI to do things inside of our AWS account. Unfortunately, the AWS CLI does not have a standard syntax of verbs similar to what you may be familiar with if you have ever worked with RESTful protocols; there is no command structure that is universal across every AWS service accessible from the CLI that can be recalled by applying a verb-like operator against a service. So, in a RESTful service, you may have a format such as the following:

However, the AWS CLI has specific operations available on a per-service basis that will not align service to service. However, the syntax across all of the operations across the services does follow a basic syntax:

The emphasis here is on the N+1 options or parameters that can quickly pile up depending upon the specific commands you are issuing. The preceding two examples are relatively simple...