This is the code repository for Implementing Identity Management on AWS, published by Packt.
A real-world guide to solving customer and workforce IAM challenges in your AWS cloud environments
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.
This book covers the following exciting features:
- Understand AWS IAM concepts, terminology, and services
- Explore AWS IAM, Amazon Cognito, AWS SSO, and AWS Directory Service to solve customer and workforce identity problems
- Apply the concepts you learn about to solve business, process, and compliance challenges when expanding into AWS
- Navigate the AWS CLI to unlock the programmatic administration of AWS
- Explore how AWS IAM, its policy objects, and notational language can be applied to solve security and access management use cases Relate concepts easily to your own environment through IAM patterns and best practices
If you feel this book is for you, get your copy today!
All of the code is organized into folders. For example, Chapter02.
The code will look like the following:
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Following is what you need for this book: Identity engineers and administrators, cloud administrators, security architects, or anyone who wants to explore and manage IAM solutions in AWS will find this book useful. Basic knowledge of AWS cloud infrastructure and services is required to understand the concepts covered in the book more effectively.
With the following software and hardware list you can run all code files present in the book (Chapter 1-12).
| Chapter | Software required | OS required |
|---|---|---|
| 1-12 | AWS CLI | Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux (Any) |
| 1-12 | AWS Account | Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux (Any) |
| 1-12 | SAML2 and an OIDC-complaint identity provider,such as Okta, Azure AD, or PingOne | Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux (Any) |
| 1-12 | Active Directory domain controller | Windows Server 2012 or later |
We also provide a PDF file that has color images of the screenshots/diagrams used in this book. Click here to download it.
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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.