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Category: AWS IAM Identity Center

AWS Week in Review – Amazon EC2 Instance Connect Endpoint, Detective, Amazon S3 Dual Layer Encryption, Amazon Verified Permission – June 19, 2023

This week, I’ll meet you at AWS partner’s Jamf Nation Live in Amsterdam where we’re showing how to use Amazon EC2 Mac to deploy your remote developer workstations or configure your iOS CI/CD pipelines in the cloud. Last Week’s Launches While I was traveling last week, I kept an eye on the AWS News. Here […]

ABAC SSO

New – Attribute-Based Access Control with AWS Single Sign-On

Starting today, you can pass user attributes in the AWS session when your workforce sign-in into the cloud using AWS Single Sign-On. This gives you the centralized account access management of AWS Single Sign-On and ABAC, with the flexibility to use AWS SSO, Active Directory, or an external identity provider as your identity source. To […]

MFA device management

New – Multi-Factor Authentication with WebAuthn for AWS SSO

Starting today, you can add WebAuthn as a new multi-factor authentication (MFA) to AWS Single Sign-On, in addition to currently supported one-time password (OTP) and Radius authenticators. By adding support for WebAuthn, a W3C specification developed in coordination with FIDO Alliance, you can now authenticate with a wide variety of interoperable authenticators provisioned by your […]

Okta add application

Single Sign-On between Okta Universal Directory and AWS

Update (May 2023) – Updated the final CLI example. Enterprises adopting the AWS Cloud want to effectively manage identities. Having one central place to manage identities makes it easier to enforce policies, to manage access permissions, and to reduce the overhead by removing the need to duplicate users and user permissions across multiple identity silos. […]

The Next Evolution in AWS Single Sign-On

Update Mar 15, 2023 – AWS Single Sign-On is now AWS IAM Identity Center. Update Feb 23, 2021 – For the latest information on how to set up Azure AD with AWS SSO for automatic provisioning please see our documentation here. Efficiently managing user identities at scale requires new solutions that connect the multiple identity […]