AWS Security Blog
Category: AWS IAM Identity Center
How to use customer managed policies in AWS IAM Identity Center for advanced use cases
September 23, 2022: This post had been updated to reflect main benefits on using CMPs with permission sets. 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 […]
Getting started with AWS IAM Identity Center delegated administration
September 12, 2022: This blog post has been updated to reflect the new name of AWS Single Sign-On (SSO) – AWS IAM Identity Center. Read more about the name change here. Recently, AWS launched the ability to delegate administration of AWS IAM Identity Center (AWS IAM Identity Center) in your AWS Organizations organization to a […]
How to automate AWS account creation with IAM Identity Center user assignment
September 12, 2022: This blog post has been updated to reflect the new name of AWS Single Sign-On (SSO) – AWS IAM Identity Center. Read more about the name change here. Background AWS Control Tower offers a straightforward way to set up and govern an Amazon Web Services (AWS) multi-account environment, following prescriptive best practices. […]
Configure AWS IAM Identity Center ABAC for EC2 instances and Systems Manager Session Manager
September 12, 2022: This blog post has been updated to reflect the new name of AWS Single Sign-On (SSO) – AWS IAM Identity Center. Read more about the name change here. In this blog post, I show you how to configure AWS IAM Identity Center to define attribute-based access control (ABAC) permissions to manage Amazon […]
How to enable secure seamless single sign-on to Amazon EC2 Windows instances with AWS IAM Identity Center
September 23, 2022: This blog post has been updated with correction on sample custom permissions policy download URL. September 12, 2022: This blog post has been updated to reflect the new name of AWS Single Sign-On (SSO) – AWS IAM Identity Center. Read more about the name change here. Today, we’re launching new functionality that […]
Authenticate AWS Client VPN users with AWS IAM Identity Center
September 12, 2022: This blog post has been updated to reflect the new name of AWS Single Sign-On (SSO) – AWS IAM Identity Center. Read more about the name change here. AWS Client VPN is a managed client-based VPN service that enables users to use an OpenVPN-based client to securely access their resources in Amazon […]
Build an end-to-end attribute-based access control strategy with AWS IAM Identity Center and Okta
April 25, 2023: We’ve updated this blog post to include more security learning resources. September 12, 2022: This blog post has been updated to reflect the new name of AWS Single Sign-On (SSO) – AWS IAM Identity Center. Read more about the name change here. IAM Identity CenterThis blog post discusses the benefits of using […]
Highlights from the latest AWS Identity launches
August 10, 2022: This blog post has been updated to reflect the new name of AWS Single Sign-On (SSO) – AWS IAM Identity Center. Read more about the name change here. Here is the latest from AWS Identity from November 2020 through February 2021. The features highlighted in this blog post can help you manage […]
How AWS IAM Identity Center Active Directory sync enhances AWS application experiences
September 12, 2022: This blog post has been updated to reflect the new name of AWS Single Sign-On (SSO) – AWS IAM Identity Center. Read more about the name change here. IAM Identity CenterIdentity management is easiest when you can manage identities in a centralized location and use these identities across various accounts and applications. […]
Use new account assignment APIs for AWS SSO to automate multi-account access
September 28, 2022: In July 2022, we renamed AWS Single Sign-On to AWS IAM Identity Center. In this blog, you will notice that we preserved backward compatibility with API calls and CLI scripts by retaining the API and CLI namespaces that were used under AWS Single Sign-On. September 12, 2022: This blog post has been […]