Federating AWS Authentication to Okta with SAML
ACM.160 A high level walkthrough of integrating Okta with AWS
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9 min readFeb 18, 2023
Part of my series on Automating Cybersecurity Metrics, IAM, and AWS Organizations. The Code.
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In the last post we considered how we might implement governance for creation of new AWS accounts in an organization.
In this post, I’m going to look at the AWS-Okta integration at a high level based on the documentation. We’re not going to implement anything just yet as we first want to consider our options.
When you integrate AWS and Okta you’re going to be using an identity system integration protocol called SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language). I’m not going to re-hash what you can read about SAML from many other sources. You can read what Okta has to say about SAML here.
