AWS Identity and Access Management simplifies management of OpenID Connect identity providers
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The article summarizes improvements made to AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) for managing OpenID Connect (OIDC) identity providers. It simplifies how customers handle federated user logins and provision new OIDC identity providers.
Specifically, the article covers:
- IAM now secures communication with OIDC identity providers by trusting their root certificate authority (CA), removing the need for customers to update certificate thumbprints when rotating SSL/TLS certificates.
- When configuring a new OIDC identity provider, customers no longer need to supply the SSL/TLS server certificate thumbprint as IAM will automatically retrieve it.
- These improvements are available in all AWS Regions, including AWS GovCloud and China Regions.
- Conclusion: The changes simplify the management of OIDC identity providers in AWS accounts.
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