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AWS IAM IDENTITY CENTER


USER GUIDE

 * What is IAM Identity Center?
 * Enabling IAM Identity Center
    * Prerequisites and considerations
       * Choosing an AWS Region
       * Using IAM Identity Center for applications only
       * Quota for IAM roles created by IAM Identity Center
       * IAM Identity Center and AWS Organizations
   
    * Confirm your identity sources

 * Common tasks
    * Set up access to applications
    * Create a permission set
    * Assign user access
    * Assign group access
    * View user and group assignments
    * Sign in to the AWS access portal

 * Identity source tutorials
    * Active Directory
    * CyberArk
    * Google Workspace
    * JumpCloud
    * Microsoft Entra ID
    * Okta
    * OneLogin
    * Ping Identity
       * PingFederate
       * PingOne
   
    * Identity Center directory

 * IAM Identity Center instances
    * Organization instances of IAM Identity Center
    * Account instances of IAM Identity Center
    * Enable account instance creation
    * Control account instance creation
    * Create an account instance
    * Delete your IAM Identity Center instance

 * Authentication in IAM Identity Center
 * Connect workforce users
    * Use cases
       * Enable single sign-on access to your AWS applications
       * Enable single sign-on access to your Amazon EC2 Windows instances
   
    * Users, groups, and provisioning
    * Manage your identity source
       * Considerations for changing your identity source
       * Change your identity source
       * Manage sign-in and attribute use for all identity source types
          * Configure session duration of AWS access portal and integrated
            applications
             * How to configure application session duration
             * How to extend the session duration for Amazon Q Developer
         
          * Delete active sessions
      
       * Manage identities in IAM Identity Center
          * Add users
          * Add groups
          * Add users to groups
          * Delete groups
          * Delete users
          * Disable user access
          * Edit user properties
          * Reset an end user password
          * Email one-time password
          * Password requirements
      
       * Connect to a Microsoft AD directory
          * Connect Active Directory and specify a user
          * Connect a directory in AWS Managed Microsoft AD to IAM Identity
            Center
          * Connect a self-managed directory in Active Directory to IAM Identity
            Center
          * Attribute mappings
             * Mapping user attributes between IAM Identity Center and Microsoft
               AD directory
         
          * Provision users and groups from Active Directory
             * IAM Identity Center configurable AD sync
                * How configurable AD sync works
                * First-time Active Directory to IAM Identity Center sync setup
                * Add users and groups to your sync scope
                * Remove users and groups from your sync scope
                * Pause and resume your sync
                * Configure attribute mappings for your sync
                * Automate sync configuration
            
             * IAM Identity Center AD sync
      
       * Manage an external identity provider
          * Connect an external identity provider
          * Change an external identity provider's metadata
          * Using SAML and SCIM identity federation
          * SCIM profile and SAML 2.0 implementation
             * Provision an external identity provider
                * Enable automatic provisioning
                * Disable automatic provisioning
                * Generate an access token
                * Delete an access token
                * Rotate an access token
            
             * Rotate SAML 2.0 certificates
                * Rotate a SAML 2.0 certificate
                * Certificate expiration status indicators
   
    * Using the AWS access portal
       * Activating the AWS access portal
       * Signing in to the AWS access portal
       * Resetting your user password
       * AWS CLI and AWS SDK access
       * Creating shortcut links
       * Registering your device for MFA
       * Customizing the AWS access portal URL
   
    * Multi-factor authentication
       * Available MFA types
       * Configure MFA
          * Prompt users for MFA
          * Choose MFA types
          * Configure MFA device enforcement
          * Allow users to register their own MFA devices
      
       * Register an MFA device
       * Rename and delete MFA devices

 * Application access
    * AWS managed applications
       * Applications that you can use with IAM Identity Center
       * Enabling identity-aware console sessions
       * Viewing and changing application details
       * Disabling an AWS managed application
   
    * Customer managed applications
       * SAML 2.0 and OAuth 2.0 applications
       * SAML 2.0 application setup
          * Set up an application from the catalog
          * Set up your own SAML 2.0 application
   
    * Trusted identity propagation
       * Overview
       * Use cases
       * Set up trusted identity propagation
          * Prerequisites and considerations
          * AWS managed applications
          * Customer managed applications
             * Set up customer managed applications
             * Specify trusted applications
      
       * Trusted token issuer
          * Trusted token issuer configuration settings
          * Setting up a trusted token issuer
   
    * Rotate certificates
       * Rotate an IAM Identity Center certificate
       * Certificate expiration status indicators
   
    * Understand application properties
    * Assign user access to applications
    * Remove user access to applications
    * Map attributes

 * AWS account access
    * Delegated administration
       * Register a member account
       * Deregister a member account
       * View delegated administrator accounts
   
    * Temporary elevated access
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       * Assign user access to AWS accounts
       * Remove user and group access to an AWS account
       * Revoke an active permission set session
       * Delegate who can assign single sign-on access
   
    * Permission sets
       * Predefined permissions
       * Custom permissions
       * Create, manage, and delete permission sets
          * Create a permission set
          * View and change a permission set
          * Delegate permission set administration
          * Use IAM policies
          * Delete permission sets
      
       * Configure permission set properties
          * Set session duration for AWS accounts
          * Set relay state
          * Use a Deny policy to revoke active user permissions
   
    * Referencing permission sets
    * Attribute-based access control
       * Checklist: Configuring ABAC in AWS using IAM Identity Center
       * Attributes for access control
          * Enable and configure attributes for access control
             * Enable attributes for access control
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             * Disable attributes for access control
         
          * Create permission policies for ABAC
   
    * Repair the IAM identity provider
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 * Resiliency design and Regional behavior
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       * Summary of emergency access configuration
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       * How to design emergency role, account, and group mapping
       * How to create your emergency access configuration
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 * Security
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          * Logging IAM Identity Center SCIM with AWS CloudTrail
          * Amazon EventBridge
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    * Compliance validation
    * Resilience
    * Infrastructure security

 * Tagging resources
    * Manage tags with the console
    * AWS CLI examples
    * API actions

 * Integrating AWS CLI with IAM Identity Center
 * Region availability
 * Considerations for Private Access
 * Quotas
 * Troubleshooting
 * Document history
 * AWS Glossary

Provisioning an external identity provider into IAM Identity Center using SCIM -
AWS IAM Identity Center
AWSDocumentationAWS IAM Identity CenterUser Guide
Considerations for using automatic provisioningHow to monitor access token
expiryManual provisioning


PROVISIONING AN EXTERNAL IDENTITY PROVIDER INTO IAM IDENTITY CENTER USING SCIM


PDFRSS

IAM Identity Center supports automatic provisioning (synchronization) of user
and group information from your identity provider (IdP) into IAM Identity Center
using the System for Cross-domain Identity Management (SCIM) v2.0 protocol. When
you configure SCIM synchronization, you create a mapping of your identity
provider (IdP) user attributes to the named attributes in IAM Identity Center.
This causes the expected attributes to match between IAM Identity Center and
your IdP. You configure this connection in your IdP using your SCIM endpoint for
IAM Identity Center and a bearer token that you create in IAM Identity Center.

TOPICS

 * Considerations for using automatic provisioning
 * How to monitor access token expiry
 * Enable automatic provisioning
 * Disable automatic provisioning
 * Generate an access token
 * Delete an access token
 * Rotate an access token
 * Manual provisioning


CONSIDERATIONS FOR USING AUTOMATIC PROVISIONING


Before you begin deploying SCIM, we recommend that you first review the
following important considerations about how it works with IAM Identity Center.
For additional provisioning considerations, see the IAM Identity Center Identity
source tutorials applicable to your IdP.

 * If you are provisioning a primary email address, this attribute value must be
   unique for each user. In some IdPs, the primary email address might not be a
   real email address. For example, it might be a Universal Principal Name (UPN)
   that only looks like an email. These IdPs may have a secondary or “other”
   email address that contains the user’s real email address. You must configure
   SCIM in your IdP to map the non-Null unique email address to the IAM Identity
   Center primary email address attribute. And you must map the users non-Null
   unique sign-in identifier to the IAM Identity Center user name attribute.
   Check to see whether your IdP has a single value that is both the sign-in
   identifier and the user’s email name. If so, you can map that IdP field to
   both the IAM Identity Center primary email and the IAM Identity Center user
   name.

 * For SCIM synchronization to work, every user must have a First name, Last
   name, Username and Display name value specified. If any of these values are
   missing from a user, that user will not be provisioned.

 * If you need to use third-party applications, you will first need to map the
   outbound SAML subject attribute to the user name attribute. If the
   third-party application needs a routable email address, you must provide the
   email attribute to your IdP.

 * SCIM provisioning and update intervals are controlled by your identity
   provider. Changes to users and groups in your identity provider are only
   reflected in IAM Identity Center after your identity provider sends those
   changes to IAM Identity Center. Check with your identity provider for details
   on the frequency of user and group updates.

 * Currently, multivalue attributes (such as multiple emails or phone numbers
   for a given user) are not provisioned with SCIM. Attempts to synchronize
   multivalue attributes into IAM Identity Center with SCIM will fail. To avoid
   failures, ensure that only a single value is passed for each attribute. If
   you have users with multivalue attributes, remove or modify the duplicate
   attribute mappings in SCIM at your IdP for the connection to IAM Identity
   Center.

 * Verify that the externalId SCIM mapping at your IdP corresponds to a value
   that is unique, always present, and least likely to change for your users.
   For example, your IdP might provide a guaranteed objectId or other identifier
   that’s not affected by changes to user attributes like name and email. If so,
   you can map that value to the SCIM externalId field. This ensures that your
   users won’t lose AWS entitlements, assignments, or permissions if you need to
   change their name or email.

 * Users who have not yet been assigned to an application or AWS account cannot
   be provisioned into IAM Identity Center. To synchronize users and groups,
   make sure that they are assigned to the application or other setup that
   represents your IdP’s connection to IAM Identity Center.

 * User deprovisioning behavior is managed by the identity provider and may vary
   by their implementation. Check with your identity provider for details on
   user deprovisioning.

 * After setting up automatic provisioning with SCIM for your IdP, you can no
   longer add or edit users in the IAM Identity Center console. If you need to
   add or modify a user, you must do so from your external IdP or identity
   source.

For more information about IAM Identity Center’s SCIM implementation, see the
IAM Identity Center SCIM Implementation Developer Guide.


HOW TO MONITOR ACCESS TOKEN EXPIRY


SCIM access tokens are generated with a validity of one year. When your SCIM
access token is set to expire in 90 days or less, AWS sends you reminders in the
IAM Identity Center console and over the AWS Health Dashboard to help you rotate
the token. By rotating the SCIM access token before it expires, you continually
secure automatic provisioning of user and group information. If the SCIM access
token expires, the synchronization of user and group information from your
identity provider into IAM Identity Center stops, so automatic provisioning can
no longer make updates or create and delete information. Disruption to automatic
provisioning may impose increased security risks and impact access to your
services.

The Identity Center console reminders persist until you rotate the SCIM access
token and delete any unused or expired access tokens. The AWS Health Dashboard
events are renewed weekly between 90 to 60 days, twice per week from 60 to 30
days, three times per week from 30 to 15 days, and daily from 15 days until the
SCIM access tokens expires.


MANUAL PROVISIONING


Some IdPs don't have System for Cross-domain Identity Management (SCIM) support
or have an incompatible SCIM implementation. In those cases, you can manually
provision users through the IAM Identity Center console. When you add users to
IAM Identity Center, ensure that you set the user name to be identical to the
user name that you have in your IdP. At a minimum, you must have a unique email
address and user name. For more information, see User name and email address
uniqueness.

You must also manage all groups manually in IAM Identity Center. To do this, you
create the groups and add them using the IAM Identity Center console. These
groups do not need to match what exists in your IdP. For more information, see
Groups.

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