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Category: AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
Refine permissions for externally accessible roles using IAM Access Analyzer and IAM action last accessed
When you build on Amazon Web Services (AWS) across accounts, you might use an AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) role to allow an authenticated identity from outside your account—such as an IAM entity or a user from an external identity provider—to access the resources in your account. IAM roles have two types of policies […]
IAM Roles Anywhere with an external certificate authority
AWS Identity and Access Management Roles Anywhere allows you to use temporary Amazon Web Services (AWS) credentials outside of AWS by using X.509 Certificates issued by your certificate authority (CA). Faraz Angabini goes deep into using IAM Roles Anywhere in his blog post Extend AWS IAM roles to workloads outside of AWS with IAM Roles […]
Use AWS Secrets Manager to store and manage secrets in on-premises or multicloud workloads
AWS Secrets Manager helps you manage, retrieve, and rotate database credentials, API keys, and other secrets throughout their lifecycles. You might already use Secrets Manager to store and manage secrets in your applications built on Amazon Web Services (AWS), but what about secrets for applications that are hosted in your on-premises data center, or hosted […]
How to use AWS Certificate Manager to enforce certificate issuance controls
AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) lets you provision, manage, and deploy public and private Transport Layer Security (TLS) certificates for use with AWS services and your internal connected resources. You probably have many users, applications, or accounts that request and use TLS certificates as part of your public key infrastructure (PKI); which means you might also need […]
Enable external pipeline deployments to AWS Cloud by using IAM Roles Anywhere
June 10, 2024: In February 2024, the workload identity federation feature for Azure DevOps became generally available. This feature is a native way to manage authentication between Azure DevOps and your AWS accounts. October 3, 2023: We updated this post to include the requirement for AWS Toolkit for Azure DevOps in the walkthrough. Continuous integration […]
How to implement cryptographic modules to secure private keys used with IAM Roles Anywhere
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Roles Anywhere enables workloads that run outside of Amazon Web Services (AWS), such as servers, containers, and applications, to use X.509 digital certificates to obtain temporary AWS credentials and access AWS resources, the same way that you use IAM roles for workloads on AWS. Now, IAM Roles Anywhere allows […]
How to receive alerts when your IAM configuration changes
June 12, 2024: Update: This post has been updated to deploy the solution in the North Virginia (us-east-1) AWS Region. August 21, 2023: This post had been updated to change from wildcard pattern matching to using “prefixes” for EventBridge pattern rules. July 27, 2023: This post was originally published February 5, 2015, and received a […]
Migrating your secrets to AWS Secrets Manager, Part 2: Implementation
In Part 1 of this series, we provided guidance on how to discover and classify secrets and design a migration solution for customers who plan to migrate secrets to AWS Secrets Manager. We also mentioned steps that you can take to enable preventative and detective controls for Secrets Manager. In this post, we discuss how […]
IAM Policies and Bucket Policies and ACLs! Oh, My! (Controlling Access to S3 Resources)
September 11, 2023: This post has been updated. Updated on July 6, 2023: This post has been updated to reflect the current guidance around the usage of S3 ACL and to include S3 Access Points and the Block Public Access for accounts and S3 buckets. Updated on April 27, 2023: Amazon S3 now automatically enables […]
Temporary elevated access management with IAM Identity Center
AWS recommends using automation where possible to keep people away from systems—yet not every action can be automated in practice, and some operations might require access by human users. Depending on their scope and potential impact, some human operations might require special treatment. One such treatment is temporary elevated access, also known as just-in-time access. […]