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The Scale Factory
June 21, 2016
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Identity on AWS
On 21st June 2016, Jon spoke at the London DevOps Meetup about Identity on AWS.
The Scale Factory
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Transcript
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IDENTITY MANAGEMENT IN AWS_ JON TOPPER | @jtopper | he/him/his
IDENTITY_ LATIN LATE LATIN idem same identitas identity quality of
being identical
IDENTITY ENABLES_ Access Control Trust Delegation Audit Trail Security Compliance
IAM CONCEPTS_ Root User Users Groups Roles Policies Tokens
Alice PowerUsers Bob Carla ci-server-role AmazonEC2ReadOnlyAccess AmazonS3FullAccess AdministratorAccess PowerUserAccess ci
{ "Version": "2012-10-17", "Statement": [ { "Effect": "Allow", "NotAction": "iam:*",
"Resource": "*" } ] } PowerUserAccess
{ "Version": "2012-10-17", "Statement": [ { "Effect": "Allow", "Action": [
"iam:*LoginProfile", "iam:*AccessKey*", "iam:*SSHPublicKey*" ], "Resource": "arn:aws:iam::00001:user/${aws:username}" }, { "Effect": "Allow", "Action": [ "iam:ListAccount*", "iam:GetAccountSummary", "iam:GetAccountPasswordPolicy", "iam:ListUsers" ], "Resource": "*" } ] } ManageOwnCredentials
Alice PowerUsers Bob Carla ci-server-role AmazonEC2ReadOnlyAccess AmazonS3FullAccess AdministratorAccess PowerUserAccess ci
ManageOwnCredentials
Alice PowerUsers Bob Carla ci-server-role AmazonEC2ReadOnlyAccess AmazonS3FullAccess AdministratorAccess PowerUserAccess ci
ManageOwnCredentials
EC2 ROLES_ $ curl http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/iam/security-credentials/ci-server-role { "Code" : "Success", "LastUpdated"
: "2012-04-26T16:39:16Z", "Type" : "AWS-HMAC", "AccessKeyId" : "AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE", "SecretAccessKey" : "wJalrXUtnFEMI/K7MDENG/bPxRfiCYEXAMPLEKEY", "Token" : "token", "Expiration" : "2012-04-27T22:39:16Z" }
Alice PowerUsers Bob Carla ci-server-role AmazonEC2ReadOnlyAccess AmazonS3FullAccess AdministratorAccess PowerUserAccess ci
ManageOwnCredentials
MULTI FACTOR AUTHENTICATION_
IAM BEST PRACTICE_ User Per Individual No Root User Multi-Factor
Auth Token Least Privilege CloudTrail
CROSS-ACCOUNT ROLE ASSUMPTION_
AssumeCustomerRole Bob Carla ScaleFactoryUser PowerUserAccess CUSTOMER MGMT ACCOUNT (00005) SCALE
FACTORY SSO ACCOUNT (00001) AssumeRoleCustomerMgmt Trust Relationship Policy
CUSTOMER MGMT ACCOUNT (00005) SCALE FACTORY SSO ACCOUNT (00001) AssumeRoleCustomerMgmt
Trust Relationship Policy { "Version": "2012-10-17", "Statement": [ { "Effect": "Allow", "Principal": { "AWS": "arn:aws:iam::00001:root" }, "Action": "sts:AssumeRole", "Condition": { "Bool": { "aws:MultiFactorAuthPresent": "true" } } } ] } { "Version": "2012-10-17", "Statement": { "Effect": "Allow", "Action": "sts:AssumeRole", "Resource": ”arn:aws:iam::00005:role/ScaleFactoryUser" } }
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EXTERNAL SOURCE OF IDENTITY_
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ScaleFactorySSOUser PowerUserAccess Trust Relationship Policy Identity Providers https://blog.faisalmisle.com/2015/11/using-google-apps-saml-sso-to-do-one-click-login-to-aws/
AWS COGNITO_
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{ "Version": "2012-10-17", "Statement": [ { "Effect": "Allow", "Action": [
"dynamodb:GetItem", "dynamodb:BatchGetItem", "dynamodb:Query", "dynamodb:PutItem", "dynamodb:UpdateItem", "dynamodb:DeleteItem", "dynamodb:BatchWriteItem" ], "Resource": [ "arn:aws:dynamodb:us-west-2:123456789012:table/MyTable" ], "Condition": { "ForAllValues:StringEquals": { "dynamodb:LeadingKeys": ["${cognito-identity.amazonaws.com:sub}"] } } } ] }
YOUR IAM MIGHT NEED WORK IF YOU_ Log in with
the root account Have >1 identity for each person Don’t use MFA Hard-code tokens in app config
YOU MAY BENEFIT FROM_ Role Assumption Cross-Account Access Federated Identity
Cognito
KEEP IN TOUCH_ http:/ /www.scalefactory.com/ https:/ /github.com/scalefactory @jtopper / @scalefactory
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