AWS Cloud Operations & Migrations Blog

Tag: SAML

Open sesame: Granting privileged access to EC2 instances with Session Manager

In this guest blog post, Herman Lee (Cloud Solution Architect, VP) and Nauman Noor (Managing Director) from the public cloud engineering team at State Street discuss their use of AWS Systems Manager Session Manager for privileged access management of Amazon EC2 instances. State Street Corporation is a financial services company responsible for the management, custody, […]

Configure Session Manager access for federated users using SAML session tags

In this blog post, we show you how to configure Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC) permissions to federate users into AWS Systems Manager Session Manager. We demonstrate how you can use attributes defined in external identity systems as part of the ABAC decisions within AWS, with SAML session tags. For example, you can grant access to […]

Tracking AWS Service Catalog products provisioned by individual SAML users

To manage access to the AWS Cloud, many companies prefer Enterprise Federation over AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) users. Identity federation provides single sign-on (SSO) to access AWS accounts using credentials from the corporate directory. This method of accessing AWS allows companies to utilize their existing identity solutions, such as Active Directory (AD) or […]