AWS Cloud Practitioner Certification

17.Advance Identity

AWS STS (Security Token Service)

• Enables you to create temporary, limited privileges credentials to access your AWS resources
• • Short-term credentials: you configure expiration period
• • Use cases
  • • Identity federation: manage user identities in external systems, and provide them with STS tokens to access AWS resources
  • • IAM Roles for cross/same account access
  • • IAM Roles for Amazon EC2: provide temporary credentials for EC2 instances to access AWS resources

Amazon Cognito (simplified)

• Identity for your Web and Mobile applications users (potentially millions)
• Instead of creating them an IAM user, you create a user in Cognito

What is Microsoft Active Directory (AD)?

• Found on any Windows Server with AD Domain Services
• Database of objects: User Accounts, Computers, Printers, File Shares, Security Groups
• Centralized security management, create account, assign permissions

AWS Directory Services

• AWS Managed Microsoft AD
  • Create your own AD in AWS, manage users locally, supports MFA
  • Establish “trust” connections with your on-premise AD
• AD Connector
  • Directory Gateway (proxy) to redirect to on-premise AD
  • Users are managed on the on-premise AD
• Simple AD
  • AD-compatible managed directory on AWS
  • Cannot be joined with on-premise AD

AWS Single Sign-On (SSO)

• Centrally manage Single Sign- On to access multiple accounts and 3rd-party business applications.
• Integrated with AWS Organizations
• Supports SAML 2.0 markup
• Integration with on-premise Active Directory