CLF-C02 Practice Question 55: Workforce Single Sign on
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C02) · Test 6 · question 5 of 10
A company has 25 AWS accounts in AWS Organizations. Its employees already sign in to every internal tool with the corporate identity provider. Instead of creating IAM users in every account, the company wants employees to use their existing corporate credentials to reach the accounts they are assigned, through a single portal, with access managed centrally. Which service should it use?
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Answer:
AWS IAM Identity Center is the AWS solution for connecting *workforce* users to AWS accounts and applications. You connect the existing identity provider and synchronize its users and groups, then use permission sets to centrally define access and assign it across the accounts in the organization. Employees sign in once through the AWS access portal and see every account and application they have been assigned. An organization instance is the recommended setup, because it is the only type that manages access to AWS accounts.
Option B, Amazon Cognito, handles sign-up and sign-in for the *customers* of your web and mobile applications, not employee access to AWS accounts. Option C, AWS RAM, shares specific *resources*, such as subnets, with other accounts. It does not sign people in. Option D is exactly what the company wants to avoid: separate IAM users in 25 accounts means 25 sets of long-term credentials per employee, with nothing connecting them to the corporate identity provider.
Reference: What is IAM Identity Center?