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Identity Federation for AWS is a foundational Amazon Web Services (AWS) integration add-on that provides Temporary AWS Security Credentials to Atlassian groups and enables access control to AWS Resources via Identity and Access Management (IAM) Policies – from a technical perspective it implements an Identity Broker/Token Vendor that uses the Atlassian Authentication System (Crowd) to Grant Access to AWS Resources.

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 Principal TypeAWS DocumentationAPI actionCredential lifetime (min/max/default)Notes
(tick)Federated UserTemporary Security Credentials to Enable Access for Federated UsersGetFederationToken

IAM user: 15m/36hr/12hr

Root account: 15m/1hr/1hr

 
(tick)IAM UserTemporary Security Credentials to Enable Access for IAM UsersGetSessionToken

IAM user: 15m/36hr/12hr

Root account: 15m/1hr/1hr

 
(tick)IAM RoleTemporary Security Credentials for Delegating API AccessAssumeRole15m/1hr/1hr

 

(error)SAML FederationTemporary Security Credentials for SAML FederationAssumeRoleWithSAML15m/1hr/1hrSupport for SAML is not on our roadmap, see the resp. FAQ for details

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In order to enable the desired access to your AWS resources, you need to create at least one AWS Connector. You can access this functionality via the AWS Connectors management screen:

Create/Edit Connector

Clicking Create Connector (or Edit later on) opens the Edit AWS Connector dialog:

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Configuring an AWS Connector with (optional) IAM Policy and Atlassian user group selection

Once you have added at least one account (see above) you can configure an arbitrary number of AWS Connectors using these. A Connector requires an arbitrary name according to your needs, the account to use and an (optional) IAM Policy, see Overview of Policies. You can reuse existing policies already in use in your organization or create new policies tailored to your use case via the AWS Policy Generator.

While not required, you might want to grant one or more of your Atlassian user groups the permission to use the AWS Connector (if no group is selected, only administrators will be able to use it).

IAM Policy Examples

Clicking on 'IAM Policy Examples' allows you to select from a few example policies to ease getting started (just click one to copy it to the policy field) - links to the AWS Policy Generator and the IAM Policy Simulator are also provided:

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The following topics are applicable to advanced scenarios only: