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Implementing Identity Management on AWS

Implementing Identity Management on AWS

By : Lehtinen
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Implementing Identity Management on AWS

Implementing Identity Management on AWS

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By: Lehtinen

Overview of this book

AWS identity management offers a powerful yet complex array of native capabilities and connections to existing enterprise identity systems for administrative and application identity use cases. This book breaks down the complexities involved by adopting a use-case-driven approach that helps identity and cloud engineers understand how to use the right mix of native AWS capabilities and external IAM components to achieve the business and security outcomes they want. You will begin by learning about the IAM toolsets and paradigms within AWS. This will allow you to determine how to best leverage them for administrative control, extending workforce identities to the cloud, and using IAM toolsets and paradigms on an app deployed on AWS. Next, the book demonstrates how to extend your on-premise administrative IAM capabilities to the AWS backplane, as well as how to make your workforce identities available for AWS-deployed applications. In the concluding chapters, you’ll learn how to use the native identity services with applications deployed on AWS. By the end of this IAM Amazon Web Services book, you will be able to build enterprise-class solutions for administrative and application identity using AWS IAM tools and external identity systems.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
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Section 1: IAM and AWS – Critical Concepts, Definitions, and Tools
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Section 2: Implementing IAM on AWS for Administrative Use Cases
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Section 3: Implementing IAM on AWS for Application Use Cases

Encryption and secrets management

Confidentiality is one of the three pillars of information security. Encryption preserves the confidentiality of data both in transit and at rest. To decrypt encrypted data, we need the appropriate keys.

AWS offers services for both managing the cryptographic keys that encrypt the data used within an AWS account, as well as a service for preserving secrets used for accessing AWS resources. We will go over these services briefly.

AWS Key Management Service

Several services within AWS offer encryption for the data at rest and in transit. S3 buckets, RDS instances, EBS volumes, and other resources leverage encryption to secure the data they store. By default, each AWS service capable of leveraging AWS KMS can generate their own instance of a default, AWS-managed encryption key that is used to encipher that data for that AWS account. However, some organizations would prefer to retain control of their encryption keys. In either case, AWS Key Management...

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