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Implementing Identity Management on AWS

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Published in Oct 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800562288

Pages 504 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Identity Management

Author (1):

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

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Assuming roles with identity pools

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...

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Authors (1)

Jon Lehtinen

Jon Lehtinen has 16 years of enterprise identity and access management experience and specializes in both the strategy and execution of IAM transformation in global-scale organizations such as Thomson Reuters, General Electric, and Apollo Education Group. In addition to his work in the enterprise space, he has held positions on Ping Identity's Customer Advisory Board and as an advisor to identity verification start-up EvidentID. He currently owns the workforce and customer identity implementations at Okta. Jon is dedicated to the growth and maturity of IAM as a profession and serves on the Board of Directors for IDPro org. He is also a member of the Kantara Initiative, ISC2, OpenID Foundation, and Women in Identity. Jon has presented his work at several conferences, including RSA, Identiverse, and KuppingerCole's European Identity and Cloud Conference. Currently, he owns Okta's workforce and customer IAM implementations as their Director of Okta on Okta.

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