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Category: AWS IAM Identity Center
Configure SAML federation for Amazon OpenSearch Serverless with AWS IAM Identity Center
Amazon OpenSearch Serverless is a serverless option of Amazon OpenSearch Service that makes it easy for you to run large-scale search and analytics workloads without having to configure, manage, or scale OpenSearch clusters. It automatically provisions and scales the underlying resources to deliver fast data ingestion and query responses for even the most demanding and […]
Role-based access control in Amazon OpenSearch Service via SAML integration with AWS IAM Identity Center
Amazon OpenSearch Service is a managed service that makes it simple to secure, deploy, and operate OpenSearch clusters at scale in the AWS Cloud. AWS IAM Identity Center (successor to AWS Single Sign-On) helps you securely create or connect your workforce identities and manage their access centrally across AWS accounts and applications. To build a […]
Enable federation to Amazon QuickSight with automatic provisioning of users between AWS IAM Identity Center and Microsoft Azure AD
Organizations are working towards centralizing their identity and access strategy across all their applications, including on-premises, third-party, and applications on AWS. Many organizations use identity providers (IdPs) based on OIDC or SAML-based protocols like Microsoft Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) and manage user authentication along with authorization centrally. This authorizes users to access Amazon QuickSight […]
Integrate AWS IAM Identity Center (successor to AWS Single Sign-On) with AWS Lake Formation fine-grained access controls
Data lakes are a centralized repository for storing structured and unstructured data at scale. Data lakes enable you to create dashboards, perform big data processing and real-time analytics, and create machine learning (ML) models on your data to drive business decisions. Many customers are choosing AWS Lake Formation as their data lake management solution. Lake […]
Create cross-account, custom Amazon Managed Grafana dashboards for Amazon Redshift
Amazon Managed Grafana recently announced a new data source plugin for Amazon Redshift, enabling you to query, visualize, and alert on your Amazon Redshift data from Amazon Managed Grafana workspaces. With the new Amazon Redshift data source, you can now create dashboards and alerts in your Amazon Managed Grafana workspaces to analyze your structured and […]
Federated authentication to Amazon Redshift using AWS Single Sign-On
July 2023: This post was reviewed for accuracy. Managing database users through identity federation allows you to manage authentication and authorization procedures centrally. Amazon Redshift, a fast, fully managed cloud data warehouse, provides browser-based plugins for JDBC/ODBC drivers, which helps you easily implement identity federation capabilities added with multi-factor authentication (MFA) to secure your data […]