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

In this chapter, we explored the authentication and authorization options available to applications hosted in AWS. We were able to provide identity information to those applications leveraging AWS identity services, particularly Amazon Cognito, while continuing to respect our organization's existing IAM infrastructure as the authoritative source for access control. We showed how to delegate authentication to an external provider using both SAML and OIDC when using an Amazon Cognito identity pool, and then explored how we could apply authorization controls to an AWS-hosted application by assigning distinct AWS IAM roles to Amazon Cognito identities based upon claims from that external IdP.

And with that, we have reached the end of the book. Congratulations on making it through! You now have a solid foundation of AWS identity knowledge that will make you better prepared to address your cloud identity challenges moving forward.