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 5: Introducing Amazon Cognito

So far, we have approached identity for AWS in the context of managing authentication and authorization to AWS resources within an AWS account. We've examined the primary service that governs that access, known as AWS IAM, and seen how user accounts are managed, how their credentials are administrated, and how authorization policies are applied. Most of these use cases focus on using AWS in the context of an Infrastructure as a Service platform.

Amazon Cognito is, above all, a service for applications, with documentation and examples targeted at application developers. In fact, many of the use cases attempt to solve certain use cases by offering reference implementations that further enmesh the application architecture into AWS. This is what we mean when we say that Amazon Cognito offers identity services for AWS in the context of Platform as a Service (PaaS) and that AWS IAM handles identity for AWS as Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS...