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A deep dive into simplified Amazon EKS access management controls
Introduction Since the initial Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) launch, it has supported AWS Identity and Access Management (AWS IAM) principals as entities that can authenticate against a cluster. This was done to remove the burden—from administrators—of having to maintain a separate identity provider. Using AWS IAM also allows AWS customers to use their […]
Managing access to Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service clusters with X.509 certificates
Introduction Currently, customers are given two main options for end users to access Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) clusters when using utilities like kubectl – AWS Identity and Access Management (AWS IAM), or OpenID Connect (OIDC). However, some customers leverage X.509 certificates to authenticate their end-users for access to Amazon EKS clusters, especially those […]