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

16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Chapter 4: Access Management, Policies, and Permissions

The Access Management model of AWS is based on policies. At a high level, we can use these policies to determine what an AWS identity object or resource can do to or with a resource or service within an AWS account. Of course, this quickly becomes very complicated once we must apply and manage policies across the multiple places where they may have been applied. We may also need to customize the existing access policies within an AWS account, or even create new policies from scratch to accommodate our own use cases. This chapter does not represent a complete compendium of knowledge regarding the complexities of access management in AWS, but it will introduce you to the foundational concepts required to understand and solve several common authorization use cases.

With this knowledge as your foundation, you will be able to strategically select further areas of study based on your own personal or professional requirements.

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