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Automating AWS IAM Identity Center Governance with Discovery and Reporting

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AWS shares a sample solution and best practices for automating governance within IAM Identity Center to manage AWS application assignments. This approach helps organizations maintain visibility into user and group access, enforce policies consistently, and generate reports for compliance audits. The solution identifies associated AWS applications and their assignments, storing the output in a queryable format and generating CSV files for analysis. It addresses the increasing complexity of identity governance as AWS environments scale across accounts and Regions.

  • →Automated IAM Identity Center Discovery and Reporting Solution
  • →Planning Identity Governance for Application Assignments
  • →Managing Identity Center Application Assignment Lifecycles
  • →Best Practices for Identity Center Application Access Management
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  • Automated IAM Identity Center Discovery and Reporting Solution

    AWS provides a sample solution to automate continuous discovery and reporting for IAM Identity Center application assignments. This helps answer critical governance and security questions about user access, last access times, and assignments across organizations and AWS Regions.

  • Planning Identity Governance for Application Assignments

    The post outlines four key areas for planning IAM Identity Center governance: defining who can provision managed AWS applications, who manages user/group assignments, how authentication flows from an IdP to AWS resources, and mapping IdP identities to AWS resource access. It emphasizes involving stakeholders from security, governance, application, and business teams.

  • Managing Identity Center Application Assignment Lifecycles

    It is recommended to enable delegated administration for Identity Center within an AWS organization. When provisioning AWS resources associated with Identity Center, IAM principals require both service-specific permissions for the AWS resource and permissions to manage applications within the Identity Center instance itself.

  • Best Practices for Identity Center Application Access Management

    After an Identity Center application is created, managing access involves assigning users or groups from the Identity Center instance. This requires IAM permissions to list Identity Center users/groups and to create/manage application assignments. Due to GUID-based ARNs for Identity Center applications, restricting management to specific applications via IAM policies is complex, suggesting limiting management of IAM Identity Center applications and assignments instead.

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https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/automate-iam-identity-center-governance-with-continuous-discovery-and-reporting/

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