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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Exploring the hosted UI

Amazon Cognito offers a customizable hosted UI for user sign-in and sign-up. We can see the default UI by opening the link at the bottom of each app client, under the App client settings menu inside our user pool:

Figure 5.42 – The hosted UI is available from the App Client details form

This is the default sign-in form:

Figure 5.43 – Amazon Cognito user pool's default form

If we wish to offer a branded experience, we can go to the UI customization menu in our pool and adjust the colors, border padding, and other CSS elements to adjust the look and feel of this hosted service so that it aligns with our own website. Amazon Cognito offers the option to run several different versions of the hosted UI, with distinct branding applied to a specific application client ID:

Figure 5.44 – Customization options for the hosted UI

Let's add a simple, and admittedly ugly...