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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Chapter 2: An Introduction to the AWS CLI

The AWS CLI is the programmatic interface for administrating resources within an AWS account. You can use the AWS CLI to access any number of AWS accounts, operate under any number of IAM user objects under each of those accounts, and execute complex commands to perform all manner of functions on all of your AWS objects. Accessing an AWS account through the AWS CLI requires an IAM user object with programmatic access to its AWS account, which is a type of credential distinct from the user object's Management Console password. With this access, you will be able to do everything via the CLI that you can do in the Management Console.

In this chapter, you will learn all about the AWS CLI. This includes the installation and configuration of the utility, including configuring different user profiles. You will also learn about several methods to discover the syntax of AWS CLI commands, including the built-in help command, auto-prompt, and...