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How to use customer managed policies in AWS IAM Identity Center for advanced use cases

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Are you looking for a simpler way to manage permissions across all your AWS accounts? Perhaps you federate your identity provider (IdP) to each account and divide permissions and authorization between cloud and identity teams, but want a simpler administrative model. Maybe you use AWS IAM Identity Center (successor …

Scale your workforce access management with AWS IAM Identity Center (previously known as AWS SSO)

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AWS Single Sign-On (AWS SSO) is now AWS IAM Identity Center. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is changing the name to highlight the service’s foundation in AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), to better reflect its full set of capabilities, and to reinforce its recommended role as the central …

Build a strong identity foundation that uses your existing on-premises Active Directory

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This blog post outlines how to use your existing Microsoft Active Directory (AD) to reliably authenticate access to your Amazon Web Services (AWS) accounts, infrastructure running on AWS, and third-party applications. The architecture we describe is designed to be highly available and extends access to your existing AD to …

Getting started with AWS SSO delegated administration

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Recently, AWS launched the ability to delegate administration of AWS Single Sign-On (AWS SSO) in your AWS Organizations organization to a member account (an account other than the management account). This post will show you a practical approach to using this new feature. For the documentation for this feature …

Configure AWS SSO ABAC for EC2 instances and Systems Manager Session Manager

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In this blog post, I show you how to configure AWS Single Sign-On to define attribute-based access control (ABAC) permissions to manage Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances and AWS Systems Manager Session Manager for federated users. This combination allows you to control access to specific Amazon EC2 …

How to enable secure seamless single sign-on to Amazon EC2 Windows instances with AWS SSO

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Today, we’re launching new functionality that simplifies the experience to securely access your AWS compute instances running Microsoft Windows. We took on this update to respond to customer feedback around creating a more streamlined experience for administrators and users to more securely access their EC2 Windows instances. The …

Build an end-to-end attribute-based access control strategy with AWS SSO and Okta

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This blog post discusses the benefits of using an attribute-based access control (ABAC) strategy and also describes how to use ABAC with AWS Single Sign-On (AWS SSO) when you’re using Okta as an identity provider (IdP). Over the past two years, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has invested heavily …

Highlights from the latest AWS Identity launches

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Here is the latest from AWS Identity from November 2020 through February 2021. The features highlighted in this blog post can help you manage and secure your Amazon Web Services (AWS) environment. Identity services answer the question of who has access to what. They enable you to securely manage …

How AWS SSO Active Directory sync enhances AWS application experiences

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Identity management is easiest when you can manage identities in a centralized location and use these identities across various accounts and applications. You also want to be able to use these identities for other purposes within applications, like searching through groups, finding members of a certain group, and sharing …

Use new account assignment APIs for AWS SSO to automate multi-account access

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In this blog post, we’ll show how you can programmatically assign and audit access to multiple AWS accounts for your AWS Single Sign-On (SSO) users and groups, using the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) and AWS CloudFormation. With AWS SSO, you can centrally manage access and user …