AWS Single Sign-On Features

With AWS SSO, users can find and access all of their assigned accounts and applications in one place. Users can simply sign in to their personalized user portal with their existing corporate credentials and with one click access any of their assigned accounts and applications. The user portal also helps you roll-out access to new applications more easily by helping users discover new applications in their user portal.

AWS SSO is integrated with AWS Organizations, enabling you to select one or more accounts from your organization and grant users access to these accounts. No additional configuration is required in the individual accounts. With just a few clicks, you can grant users access to all of the AWS accounts being used for an application or by a team.

With AWS SSO, you can also centrally manage users’ permissions to AWS resources in your AWS accounts when they access the AWS Management Console through the user portal. You can assign users different sets of permission based on common job functions and customize these permissions to meet your specific requirements. For instance, you can assign developers full administrative permissions in their test accounts, but only grant them job-specific permissions, such as database or network administrator, in production accounts.

Using AWS Single Sign-On (SSO), you can manage SSO access for multiple AWS accounts centrally. When users sign in to their personalized user portals, they will see all of their assigned AWS accounts in one place.

AWS SSO provides you a directory by default that you can use to create users and organize them in groups within AWS SSO. You can create users in AWS SSO by configuring their email address and name. When you create a user, by default AWS SSO sends an email to the user so that your users can set their own password. Within minutes, you can grant your users and groups permissions to AWS resources in all your AWS accounts as well as many business applications. Your users sign in to a user portal with credentials they configured in AWS SSO to access all of their assigned accounts and applications in a single place.

With AWS SSO, you can manage SSO access to accounts and applications using your existing corporate identities from Microsoft Active Directory (AD). AWS SSO integrates with AD through AWS Directory Service and enables you to grant users SSO access to accounts and applications simply by adding the users to the appropriate AD groups. For example, you can create an AD group for a team of developers working on an application and grant the AD group access to the AWS accounts for the application. When new developers join the team and you add them to the AD group, they are granted access to all the AWS accounts for the application automatically.

You can create single sign-on (SSO) integrations to Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) 2.0-enabled applications using the AWS SSO application configuration wizard. The application configuration wizard helps you select and format the information to send applications to enable SSO access. For example, you can create a SAML attribute for username and specify the format for the attribute based on a user’s email address from their AD profile.

Users can sign in to the AWS SSO user portal with their existing corporate credentials and get AWS Command Line Interface (CLI) credentials for all their assigned AWS accounts from one place. These AWS CLI credentials expire after 60 minutes automatically to help protect access to your AWS accounts.

AWS SSO offers you built-in SSO integrations to many business applications, including Salesforce, Box, and Office 365. You can easily configure SSO access to these applications by following step by step instructions. AWS SSO guides you through entering the required URLs, certificates, and metadata.