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 6: Introduction to AWS Organizations and AWS Single Sign-On

We've said several times that much of the confusion around applying identity to AWS stems from the various identity services available on the platform, and the ambiguity around their appropriate use. So far, we've split services into two groups: those that provide identity for AWS as an infrastructure-as-a-service platform, and those that offer identity capabilities in a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) context. AWS Single Sign-On (SSO) strains this motif. On the one hand, AWS SSO's primary function and capability focuses on facilitating access to AWS resources, specifically AWS accounts within an AWS organization. On the other, it is also capable of being an enterprise-grade identity provider for more than just AWS resources.

By the end of this chapter, we will understand AWS SSO's role in the AWS identity ecosystem, and how it operates as an identity service across AWS.

In this chapter, you...