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Implementing Identity Management on AWS

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Product type Book
Published in Oct 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800562288
Pages 504 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Jon Lehtinen Jon Lehtinen
Profile icon Jon Lehtinen

Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Preface Section 1: IAM and AWS – Critical Concepts, Definitions, and Tools
Chapter 1: An Introduction to IAM and AWS IAM Concepts Chapter 2: An Introduction to the AWS CLI Chapter 3: IAM User Management Chapter 4: Access Management, Policies, and Permissions Chapter 5: Introducing Amazon Cognito Chapter 6: Introduction to AWS Organizations and AWS Single Sign-On Chapter 7: Other AWS Identity Services Section 2: Implementing IAM on AWS for Administrative Use Cases
Chapter 8: An Ounce of Prevention – Planning Your Administrative Model Chapter 9: Bringing Your Admins into the AWS Administrative Backplane Chapter 10: Administrative Single Sign-On to the AWS Backplane Section 3: Implementing IAM on AWS for Application Use Cases
Chapter 11: Bringing Your Users into AWS Chapter 12: AWS-Hosted Application Single Sign-On Using an Existing Identity Provider Other Books You May Enjoy

Distinguishing administrative users from non-administrative users

We already have a connection to our AWS accounts via AWS SSO and our external IDP for the user accounts that are entitled to access our AWS environments. However, what can we do to ensure that all user accounts are available to applications in AWS, even if the users never need administrative access to an AWS account? To answer that question, first, we need to clarify how we define each of these types of accounts. In the broadest terms, administrative accounts are accounts that have enhanced permissions to modify system settings, create other accounts, and change the permissions for what other accounts can do. For our Redbeard Identity AWS use case, we classified administrative accounts as those accounts that had access to and could manipulate resources within an AWS account. We made distinctions as to where a given user had their administrative privileges via group memberships to specific accounts and permission sets...

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