Amazon launches single sign on service for AWS cloud
1Amazon launches single sign-on service for AWS cloud.
Amazon Web Services' re:Invent conference is wrapped up and in the bag, but the cloud juggernaut appears to have had at least one more product to release before the year's end.
On Thursday, the company quietly announced AWS SSO, a single sign-on service for the AWS cloud. Amazon describes the product as a centralized portal from which users can manage access to multiple AWS accounts and applications using their existing corporate credentials.
AWS said SSO is integrated with AWS Organizations to let users configure and maintain permissions automatically, and that it also supports Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) 2.0, which allows users to extend SSO access to their SAML-enabled apps via an application configuration wizard.
"For example, you can give your security team administrative-level access to your AWS accounts running your security tools, but only grant them auditor-level access to your other AWS accounts for monitoring purposes," according to the SSO product page.