00ubrvqzdn23PcXoe0x1.5324943260826912E12 (Customer) asked a question.
Hi Support,
I want to programmatically add account IDs to our AWS account intergation in Okta and trigger the role lookup. Can you advise how I can do this please?
For context, the setting Im referring to is the Connected Accounts IDs (optional) section in the API Intergation tab
Hi Andrew,
Roles in AWS are tied to policies, which are tied to the resources they control. To assume that Role, you have to establish a session with AWS, for which you need to have security credentials that are comprised of access keys and session tokens associated with the keys. As part of the integration, Okta takes in those keys and makes APIs call to establish that session, then gives permissions to users within AD security groups. For the end-user this is all seamless as they just need to provide the keys to Okta. Okta does the authentication, then provides access control to AWS users.
More details here : https://support.okta.com/help/s/article/25052756-Amazon-Web-Services-AWS-IAM-Deployment-Guide
And here under Step 5 : https://saml-doc.okta.com/SAML_Docs/How-to-Configure-SAML-2.0-for-Amazon-Web-Service
If you need further assistance on this, feel free to submit a ticket and my colleagues will be right here to assist.
Bogdan Radu
Technical Support Engineer
Okta Global Customer Care
Hi Support,
I understand the basics around how the integration works, we have set it up and are using it currently.
My question is "Can I use Okta's API to make changes to the AWS account list in the integration?"
-Andrew
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Hi Andrew,
Roles in AWS are tied to policies, which are tied to the resources they control. To assume that Role, you have to establish a session with AWS, for which you need to have security credentials that are comprised of access keys and session tokens associated with the keys. As part of the integration, Okta takes in those keys and makes APIs call to establish that session, then gives permissions to users within AD security groups. For the end-user this is all seamless as they just need to provide the keys to Okta. Okta does the authentication, then provides access control to AWS users.
More details here : https://support.okta.com/help/s/article/25052756-Amazon-Web-Services-AWS-IAM-Deployment-Guide
And here under Step 5 : https://saml-doc.okta.com/SAML_Docs/How-to-Configure-SAML-2.0-for-Amazon-Web-Service
If you need further assistance on this, feel free to submit a ticket and my colleagues will be right here to assist.
Bogdan Radu
Technical Support Engineer
Okta Global Customer Care