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Federated directory services

Federated directory services - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

From the course: AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate (SAA-C03) Cert Prep (February 2025)

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Federated directory services

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- [Instructor] In this module, we're going to talk about Federated Directory Services, but before we can really get into that, we need to make sure we clarify important information about federated identity. Federated identity is a system of trust between two parties, and so this is to say that one party will trust the other to authenticate users. You see this often online. You might visit a website, and you need to log into the website, but rather than creating a full account on that website, they may offer you the ability to log in with Google, or Facebook, or some other account that you already have. This is an example of federated identity. AWS supports standardized protocols for performing federated identity. You don't need to know the details of all of these protocols, but you do need to know the ones that AWS supports for this. One of them is the Security Assertion Markup Language, or SAML 2.0. They also…

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