Tag: Federation

April 14, 2021: In the section “Use the SourceIdentity attribute with identity federation,” we updated “AWS SSO” to “sign-in endpoint” for clarity. AWS Security Token Service (AWS STS) now offers customers the ability to specify a unique identity attribute for their workforce identities and applications when they assume an AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) […]

May 4, 2021: AWS Single Sign-On (SSO) currently does not support G Suite as an identity provider for automatic provisioning of users and groups, or the open source ssosync project, available on Github. January 11, 2021: This post has been updated to reflect changes to the G Suite user interface. August 3, 2020: This post […]

June 24, 2020: We updated the first 3 paragraphs of this post to provide, and link to, more information. As organizations grow, they often experience an inflection point where it becomes impractical to manually manage separate user accounts in disparate systems. Managing multiple AWS accounts is no exception. Many large organizations have dozens or even […]

December 2, 2019: Since the author wrote this post, AWS Single Sign On (AWS SSO) has launched native features that simplify using Azure Active Directory as an identity provider. Therefore, AWS SSO is now the recommended solution for enabling SAML federation using Azure AD. See this blog post for details. You can use federation to […]

The following 10 posts were the most viewed AWS Security Blog posts that we published during 2017. You can use this list as a guide to catch up on your AWS Security Blog reading or read a post again that you found particularly useful. Coming Soon: Improvements to How You Sign In to Your AWS […]

Want to learn how to securely deploy applications and services in the AWS Cloud? Join us in New York City at the AWS Pop-up Loft for AWS Security Week, November 6–9. At this free technical event, you will learn security concepts and strategies from AWS security professionals in sessions, demos, and labs. Here is a sampling of […]

AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory, also known as AWS Microsoft AD, is a managed Microsoft Active Directory (AD) hosted in the AWS Cloud. Now, AWS Microsoft AD makes it easy for you to give your users permission to manage AWS resources by using on-premises AD administrative tools. With AWS Microsoft AD, you can […]

The following 10 posts were the most viewed AWS Security Blog posts that we published during 2016. You can use this list as a guide to catch up on your blog reading or even read a post again that you found particularly useful. How to Set Up DNS Resolution Between On-Premises Networks and AWS Using […]

In case you missed any AWS Security Blog posts from June, July, and August, they are summarized and linked to below. The posts are shown in reverse chronological order (most recent first), and the subject matter ranges from a tagging limit increase to recording SSH sessions established through a bastion host. August August 16: Updated […]

Identity federation enables your enterprise users (such as Active Directory users) to access the AWS Management Console via single sign-on (SSO) by using their existing credentials. In Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) 2.0, RelayState is an optional parameter that identifies a specified destination URL your users will access after signing in with SSO. When using […]