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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Logging and auditing

Unlike the identity services that merited their own chapters, or even the services we looked at earlier within this chapter, AWS CloudTrail and Amazon CloudWatch may not seem worth much of a mention. However, logging and auditing are essential components of non-repudiation. Non-repudiation is when we have assurances that something, such as an action, signature, or event, cannot be denied by a person. IAM ties the event, action, account, and others to the individual, and auditing and logging help prove that the event occurred.

We will quickly look at the two services AWS provides for audit and logging. The first is AWS CloudTrail, which captures the events that occur within an AWS account. The second is Amazon CloudWatch, which is a monitoring and logging service that can be used with AWS services and resources.