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Federating the AWS CLI with an Identity Provider

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Paul Moreno shows how to federate AWS IAM permissions, roles, and users with a directory service such as LDAP or Active Directory with an Identity Provider. Using the open-source IdP software Shibboleth, he describes how this uses the AWS Security Token Service to reduce the need for long lived credentials for both the Web Console and CLI.

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Paul Moreno is the Security Team Lead at Pinterest, a visual bookmarking tool for saving and discovering creative ideas. At Pinterest, Paul has spent his tenure establishing the Security Engineering foundation and assembling a core security team. Paul delivers data-driven solutions for modern cloud security threats.

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Sep 27, 2015

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