Federated Identity is a process of establishing trust between sources for authenticating users and distributing information needed to authorize access to resources. Single Sign-on is a subset of the federation identity which allows the user to authorize and access data using a centralized domain.
CloudFormation is one of the important services in AWS, as it helps us to maintain Infrastructure as a Code (IAAC). Still, there are some services that are not supported by CloudFormation, for example, ‘Cloud Search’ is a service which do not support CloudFormation natively, and to have CloudFormation for these kinds of services we can adopt the Custom CloudFormation approach
Much has been said and written about the cloud and the benefits it offers. However, with all these benefits, there are challenges with respect to faster cloud adoption, compliance, and security of the overall environment. Every organization that wants to migrate or implement workloads in the cloud has different needs and priorities, which means there’s no one way for adopting cloud best practices. However, a well-designed and documented execution of the AWS Control Tower is one of the recommended approaches.
Have you ever been worried about organizing and effective management of your 1000s of AWS resources? Have you ever been surprised with higher AWS bills with no detail of underlying services? Then AWS Tags is your friend, it can help you by assigning your custom metadata and enables you to categorize your AWS resources by filtering your metadata. It can help you in the identification of resources, budget planning and several more. This article is based on our collective experience with various clients and briefly talks about some of the best practices for AWS Tagging, strategies, and tools for effective governance.
