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Federated access to Amazon Web Services
Members of the AIM Group may be interested in a new guide recently published on the Amazon Web Service Group (https://community.ja.net/groups/amazon-web-services-aws/) that explains how to implement Shibboleth to get federated access to AWS.
As announced by Cal Racey on the Jisc-Shibboleth@jiscmail.ac.uk discussion list, he and colleagues at Newcastle University have been participating in Janet's Amazon cloud pilot and have created a guide on how to use Shibboleth to access the Amazon portal:
https://community.ja.net/groups/amazon-web-services-aws/article/guide-shibbolising-aws
According to Cal: "it's relatively straightforward to do. It also has the benefit that you can use amazon's native accounts/identities and shibboleth provided identities and roles at the same time. Credit to my colleague Chris Franks for figuring out the intricacies and writing the guide.
Shibbolised access is particularly useful if you want to use shibboleth with many users (e.g. computing coursework) or leverage your own IDM for increased security."
Thanks Cal and Chris for doing this work. If anyone is interested in this area, please head over to the AWS Group for more information.