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AWS Solutions Architect – Professional
AWS Single Sing-On - SSO
- A way to use existing enterprise identity store with AWS
- Allows to centrally manage SSO access to multiple AWS accounts and external business applications as well
- Replaces the historical uses cases provided by SAML 2.0
- Flexible Identity store: where identities are stored. Allows for external identities to be swapped with AWS credentials
- AWS SSO supports:
- Built-in identity store
- AWS Managed Microsoft AD
- On-premise Microsoft AD
- External Identity Provider - SAML 2.0
- AWS SSO is preferred by AWS for any “workforce” (enterprise) identity federation over the traditional SAML 2.0 based identity federation
AWS SSO Architecture
