You're reading from AWS Security Cookbook Practical solutions for securing AWS cloud infrastructure with essential services and best practices

Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2024

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781835081891

Length 428 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Concepts

Cloud Security

Author (1):

Kanikathottu

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Table of Contents (13) Chapters

Preface

1. Chapter 1: Setting Up AWS Accounts and Organization

2. Chapter 2: Access Management with IAM Policies and Roles FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 3: Key Management with KMS and CloudHSM

4. Chapter 4: Securing Data on S3 with Policies and Techniques

5. Chapter 5: Network and EC2 Security with VPCs

6. Chapter 6: Web Security Using Certificates, CDNs, and Firewalls

7. Chapter 7: Monitoring with CloudWatch, CloudTrail, and Config

8. Chapter 8: Compliance with GuardDuty, Macie, Inspector, and Analyzer

9. Chapter 9: Advanced Identity and Directory Management

10. Chapter 10: Additional Services and Practices for AWS Security

11. Index

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Using identity pools to access AWS resources

As discussed earlier in this chapter, Amazon Cognito serves two primary use cases. While user pools help us in handling identity and access management for our applications, identity pools extend this functionality to provide temporary AWS credentials, enabling secure access to various AWS services without the need for long-term keys. In this recipe, we will delve into the use of identity pools for effective access to AWS resources. Let’s embark on a deep dive into the realm of identity pools and leverage their capability to weave identity pools into our applications, ensuring a secure and scalable method to access the AWS resources, making use of temporary AWS credentials.

Getting ready

To complete this recipe, we need to ensure that the following additional requirements are in place in addition to those mentioned in the Technical requirements section: