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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Summary

In this chapter, we brought our user's identity information into AWS so that it could be consumed by applications hosted on AWS. First, we considered how administrative and non-administrative identity use cases differ. Then, we examined several different solution architectures to solve the challenge of bringing user identity information into AWS. Finally, we built a solution that enabled AWS-deployed applications to access user information through our organization's authoritative sources. We did this by using AWS Directory Services and building a trust between our on-premises Active Directory and a Managed AD domain created within our AWS account.

In the next chapter, we will discuss how to use AWS-native identity services, such as Amazon Cognito, to solve application identity use cases while still deferring to our external IDP as the authoritative source of user identity information.