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

We covered a lot of new ground in this chapter! In this chapter, we took our first steps into a very large identity service that is nearly completely separate from the identity service that we spent that last few chapters getting to know. However, now that we understand the capabilities of Amazon Cognito, as well as how it can be used to solve application identity in a PaaS context, we are prepared to incorporate it into a holistic cloud identity strategy. We can use services such as Amazon Cognito to facilitate and simplify the challenges that application teams have with user life cycle management and authentication, especially if they intend to fully enmesh their application architecture into the AWS ecosystem.

The next chapter will bring us back into managing access to AWS as an IaaS platform. However, it will do so via another fully featured identity provider service available on AWS that is totally different from Amazon Cognito. There, we will become familiar with AWS...