Syllaro Academy

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

IAM Identity Center and Federation

See how AWS gives your workforce single sign-on across many accounts with IAM Identity Center, and how federation lets people use an existing identity provider to access AWS with temporary credentials.

Beginner 15 minutes 4 Learning Objectives
  1. Explain why IAM users do not scale well for human access across many accounts
  2. Describe what AWS IAM Identity Center is and the access it provides
  3. Identify the identity sources IAM Identity Center can use
  4. Explain what identity federation is and how it grants temporary access