A new solution from Amazon Web Services gives organizations single sign-on capabilities using Microsoft Active Directory credentials.

On Thursday, the company quietly announced AWS SSO, a single sign-on service for the AWS cloud. Amazon describes the product as a centralized portal from which users can manage access to multiple ...

Managing user identities is often challenging for organizations that make third-party applications available to users through the AWS cloud. A user might. for example, log on using an Active Directory ...

After earlier detailing basic setup, Brien shows how to grant SSO access to your AWS and cloud accounts.

Whether AWS is offering a product that has the same ease of use as the competing ones remains to be seen, but it is providing the ground work for a more comprehensive single sign on experience in AWS.

“We regularly talk with AWS customers who also use Okta as their identity provider. While some have already configured Okta to enable single sign-on access to their AWS accounts, the ...