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Implementing Identity Management on AWS
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Implementing Identity Management on AWS

by Jon Lehtinen
October 2021
Intermediate to advanced
504 pages
10h 58m
English
Packt Publishing
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Section 1: IAM and AWS – Critical Concepts, Definitions, and Tools

Identity is the most granular unit of security. To ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of a system, that system's infrastructure, applications, APIs, and endpoints must all be identifiable, authenticated, and authorized in order to perform its functions. The AWS platform operates under a rigid identity-centric model. Bridging that model with your own organization's identity implementation can be daunting. At the end of this section, you will understand the industry-standard and AWS-specific IAM terminology that will be referenced throughout this book. You will also learn about best-practice access management patterns and the tools available to implement ...

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