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Tag: ADFS

Use attribute-based access control with AD FS to simplify IAM permissions management

June 19, 2020: The Prerequisites section of this post has been updated to include the prerequisite to enable Sts:tagSession to the role trust policy. AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) allows customers to provide granular access control to resources in AWS. One approach to granting access to resources is to use attribute-based access control (ABAC) […]

Enabling Federation to AWS Using Windows Active Directory, ADFS, and SAML 2.0

Update from September 7, 2022: This post had been updated to correct the reference to the CloudFormation template. Update from January 17, 2018: The techniques demonstrated in this blog post relate to traditional SAML federation for AWS. These techniques are still valid and useful. However, AWS Single Sign-On (AWS SSO) provides analogous capabilities by way of […]