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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To get the most out of this book

To get the most out of this book, we expect familiarity with some basic IAM concepts and tools. Strictly speaking, there are no significant prerequisites to follow along with most of the exercises as they leverage existing AWS services and tools. As we look at some enterprise use cases in the later chapters, you will benefit from either setting up or using an existing non-production enterprise-grade identity provider and Active Directory domain controller.

Most cloud-based identity providers offer developer accounts and/or basic functionality free of charge that are more than sufficient for the examples in this book. Some chapters include references to guides for configuring a test environment for low or no cost in AWS, such as building a domain controller using Amazon EC2.

It would be impossible to cover every use case or scenario of AWS in a single book. However, we believe those who read it will not only be ready to contribute their identity expertise to most enterprise use cases but will be armed with the foundational knowledge and experience needed to solve increasingly complex ones as well.