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 3: IAM User Management

Some of the most highly visible objects in identity and access management (IAM) are user accounts. Much of the discipline is centered on securing the credentials for those accounts, ensuring they have proper lifecycle management, and providing the governance to ensure that we can audit and document their proper use. And, of course, issues with accounts and passwords can also cause much user-experience friction in both enterprise and customer environments. All of those challenges are still with us in the cloud. In fact, it is arguable that the stakes for securely managing user accounts within cloud management backplanes are higher, as a loss of control there could have knock-on effects across dozens of apps and on critical enterprise infrastructure. With that in mind, let's take a look at Amazon Web Services (AWS) IAM user management.

In this chapter, we'll cover the following topics: