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Identity Providers and Federation

Identity Providers and Federation - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

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Identity Providers and Federation

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In this lesson, I'm going to cover identity providers and federation. So there's different ways that we can federate to AWS and federation essentially means that we take our identity source and link it with AWS. So we might have an identity source like an on premises Active Directory. And we want to use that same identity source for authenticating and getting authorized to have access to AWS. So in other words, one username and password, one location where the user is stored along with their credentials like a password or maybe multi-factor authentication. And then from that one identity source, we wanna be able to access other systems without having to reauthenticate. So for example, in on-premises data centers, Active Directory is very common. This is a Microsoft product. The user accounts are stored in Active Directory. and it's known as an LDAP Identity Store. So our users connect to Active Directory when they log in. They put their username and password in and it gets sent to…

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