AWS IAM / Identity Center
Stub scaffolded from survey-v2.csv row (General Identity, listed as “AWS”). Unverified — fill via wiki-research.
One-liner — AWS’s native identity layer: IAM for cloud-resource permissions (users, roles, policies) plus IAM Identity Center (ex-AWS SSO) for workforce single sign-on into AWS accounts and apps.
What it does — TBD: IAM governs programmatic/console access to AWS resources via roles and policies; IAM Identity Center adds workforce SSO across multiple AWS accounts and SAML apps. It is cloud IAM more than a general-purpose corporate IdP — most shops federate it from an IdP (microsoft-entra, okta) rather than use it as the front door.
Naming / provenance — CSV row says just “AWS”; scoped here to IAM + IAM Identity Center as the identity shopping unit (parallel to aws-secrets-manager for the secrets slot).
Ownership & viability — Product of Amazon Web Services (Amazon, public). No standalone viability question.
Positioning & differentiators — TBD: default and unavoidable for AWS-resource access; IAM roles are also the de facto identity for AWS-hosted workloads/agents, which touches non-human-identity.
Who should choose them / anti-fit — TBD: every AWS shop uses IAM by definition; the survey question is whether anyone treats it as their primary workforce IdP.
Known weaknesses / gotchas — TBD.
Deployment & data handling — SaaS (AWS control plane); details TBD.
Integrations & partnerships — TBD: SAML/OIDC federation, external IdP integration, agent/workload roles.
Compliance & FS traction — TBD (AWS itself carries the usual attestations; specifics unverified here).
Commercial — TBD: IAM and Identity Center are no-additional-charge AWS features.
Open questions
- Everything above marked TBD is unverified — fill via wiki-research, never guess.
- Survey-design: is “AWS” as a General Identity option measuring cloud IAM usage (near-universal for AWS shops) or primary-IdP choice (rare)? Consider clarifying the option label.
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History
- [2026-07-13] Page scaffolded from survey-v2.csv row (added by human, no page existed) via wiki-create; scoped “AWS” to IAM / IAM Identity Center.