Provisioning AWS Resources

You likely need to provision a few dedicated AWS resources to get started with identity federation. To ease this, there are two AWS CloudFormation templates to choose from.

On this page:

1 Resources
2 CloudFormation Templates
3 How-to Articles
4 Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Related pages:

Tasks for AWS
- Provisioning with AWS CloudFormation

Resources

The following resources are required or recommended in order to use Identity Federation for AWS:

An IAM role
A managed IAM policy
An IAM user
An IAM access key

The CloudFormation templates below can provision these resources for you.

CloudFormation Templates

There are two CloudFormation templates to choose from for provisioning required AWS resources:

Identity Federation for AWS (Core)

This template provisions the following Identity Federation for AWS core resources:

These resources are semantically required and we recommend to provision a dedicated IAM role indeed.

Key	Type	Description

Key	Type	Description
CoreRoleArn	AWS::IAM::Role	ARN of Identity Federation for AWS (Core) IAM role
CorePolicyArn	AWS::IAM::ManagedPolicy	ARN of Identity Federation for AWS (Core) managed IAM policy

Identity Federation for AWS (Quickstart)

This template provisions the following Identity Federation for AWS quickstart resources:

These resources aim to get you started quickly by covering the basic use cases.

Key	Related Type	Description

Key	Related Type	Description
CoreRoleArn	AWS::IAM::Role	ARN of Identity Federation for AWS (Core) IAM role
CorePolicyArn	AWS::IAM::ManagedPolicy	ARN of Identity Federation for AWS (Core) managed IAM policy
CoreUserArn	AWS::IAM::User	ARN of Identity Federation for AWS (Core) IAM user
CoreAccessKeyId	AWS::IAM::AccessKey	AWS Access Key ID of Identity Federation for AWS (Core) IAM user
CoreSecretAccessKey	AWS::IAM::AccessKey	AWS Secret Access Key of Identity Federation for AWS (Core) IAM user

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