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Implementing Identity Management on AWS

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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800562288
Length 504 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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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 16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Evaluating the organization's current IAM capabilities

Our objective over the next few chapters is to look for ways to link an organization's existing identity management infrastructure and the organization itself to AWS. More specifically, we want every administrator to have access to the backplane of the AWS account or accounts where appropriate, and for these existing user identities to become available to applications hosted on AWS. This means we will need to connect an existing org's IAM infrastructure to AWS and apply the appropriate provisioning, governance, and authorization models to ensure that appropriate access is granted. As we just completed a review of the AWS identity services, next we must look at our organization's IAM capabilities.

First, we must take an inventory of the current identity management landscape, capabilities, and maturity for the organization as that will help inform our administrative model. In order to make these examples comparable...

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