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 11: Bringing Your Users into AWS

In the previous chapter, we implemented the authentication and authorization components of the administrative user model, which we initially conceptualized back in Chapter 8, An Ounce of Prevention – Planning Your Administrative Model. We accomplished our objectives through a combination of service control policies from AWS Organizations, AWS Single Sign-On (SSO) permission sets, and group-based access controlled by an external identity provider (IDP). Our requirements for administrative user access focused on gaining access to AWS accounts and the resources within those accounts. However, what are our options for providing user identity information to those applications that our organization intends to host on AWS?

In this chapter, we will review how administrative and non-administrative identity use cases differ, examine several possible solution architectures to solve this challenge (some using AWS services and some not), and then...