Connecting on-premise AD to AWS IAM

You can access AWS services using your corporate credentials as defined in your existing Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) setup. You can also integrate AWS with ADFS to implement single sign-on functionality. When using ADFS with AWS, ADFS acts as the identity provider and AWS acts as a relying party. This recipe includes commands and instructions to create a proxy server to get the temporary credentials from AWS Security Token Service (STS) and a client application that accesses an S3 bucket (using the temporary credentials) from a C# application.

How to do it…

  1. Create a proxy application.

    Create a simple Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) application and add a WCF service class. WCF is a framework ...

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