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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Amazon Cognito use cases

There are several common deployment patterns and use cases that Amazon Cognito accommodates. While each of these patterns may involve different Amazon Cognito, AWS IAM, or other app and AWS service components, they all share the same underlying purpose: to facilitate application identity services on applications deployed on AWS. Let's examine a few of these use cases and patterns and see how the different Amazon Cognito components come into play for each one.

User authentication for application access

The simplest design pattern to accommodate when using Amazon Cognito is fully externalized user account management and authentication. In this pattern, the Cognito user pool acts as the IDP and user store for the application:

Figure 5.3 – Application authentication and user management with a user pool

Applications can take advantage of Amazon Cognito's hosted account management, sign-up, and verification process...