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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Solutions to non-administrative user use cases for apps on AWS

Let's consider some of the solution architectures that are available to us when providing access to non-administrative user identity information to applications hosted within AWS. We will start with a baseline where we do not leverage any AWS services at all in order to access our user identities:

Figure 11.1 – An application directly integrated with an external IDP

In this configuration, the application, or its web server, is configured to operate as either a SAML service provider or an OpenID Connect (OIDC)-reliant party. Previously, we mentioned how services such as Amazon Cognito offer SDKs and code samples to facilitate application integration with those services. Standards bodies and open source communities offer similar plugins, SDKs, and web server modules that are designed to facilitate the adoption of standards-based identity protocols, such as SAML2 and OIDC. While this reduces...