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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Chapter 1: An Introduction to IAM and AWS IAM Concepts

Identity is the perimeter of security, and every transaction, capability, administrative event, and infrastructure component of cloud providers such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) ultimately depends upon identity services to govern all its capabilities. If that scope wasn't large enough already, tying AWS' native capabilities to an existing enterprise, customer, administrative, or infrastructure identity deployment can seem so complex as to make it difficult for cloud identity administrators to know how or where to start. This book will help you overcome the paralysis caused by the capabilities of the platform by approaching the implementation of AWS IAM (IAM) in a use case driven fashion, informed by real experiences working in large enterprise AWS environments.

By the end of this chapter, you will be familiar with the foundational concepts of IAM and see how they are applied within an organization. You will learn the purpose of the AWS IAM service, its components, and how they all work together to secure access to AWS resources. Finally, you'll use the AWS Management Console to create and manage AWS IAM resources, including IAM users, groups, and policies.

This chapter will cover the following topics: