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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We have addressed our need for AWS-hosted apps to have baseline user authentication services available using Amazon Cognito user pools. This model allows us to continue to use our existing identity systems as the ultimate authoritative source for the users in those applications, even when those applications take advantage of services such as Amazon Cognito for their identity use cases. For applications with architectures that have deep integration into AWS services, Amazon Cognito identity pools can provide authorization to AWS resources such as Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) buckets and Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) databases. This allows the application users to indirectly interact with these services when using the application that is built to leverage them.

Let's consider a use case where the Redbeard Identity Sales team manages its sales reports through an application that is hosted on AWS. The reports are published to...