Question 360
An organization is considering this AWS scenario: A central IT team wants employees to sign in once to several AWS accounts using the corporate identity provider. Which underlying capability is most relevant?
Explanation
Correct Answer
AWS IAM Identity Center provides centralized workforce access and single sign-on capabilities. This is the best underlying concept for the stated situation. AWS IAM Identity Center provides centralized workforce access and single sign-on capabilities. The key business clue is: Look for federated workforce sign-in across AWS accounts and approved applications. A suitable choice is: Use IAM Identity Center with the organization's identity source and scoped permission sets. An expected result is: Employees use the approved identity workflow to access only assigned AWS accounts. Important limitation: Single sign-on does not mean every employee should have administrator permissions.
Incorrect Answers
AWS Secrets Manager stores and controls retrieval of secrets such as application credentials. In the present case the governing issue is AWS IAM Identity Center provides centralized workforce access and, which this does not resolve.
Cross-account IAM roles support controlled access between trusted AWS accounts. That observation may hold without resolving the relevant issue: AWS IAM Identity Center provides centralized workforce access and.
AWS IAM policies define allowed and denied actions on specified resources. It does not verify the requested outcome; here the decisive check concerns AWS IAM Identity Center provides centralized workforce access and.