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Role-Based Access Controls in Amazon OpenSearch

Scott Chang and Muthu Pitchaimani show how to assign rights in Amazon OpenSearch to IAM groups:

Amazon OpenSearch Service is a managed service that makes it simple to secure, deploy, and operate OpenSearch clusters at scale in the AWS Cloud. AWS IAM Identity Center (successor to AWS Single Sign-On) helps you securely create or connect your workforce identities and manage their access centrally across AWS accounts and applications. To build a strong least-privilege security posture, customers also wanted fine-grained access control to manage dashboard permission by user role. In this post, we demonstrate a step-by-step procedure to implement IAM Identity Center to OpenSearch Service via native SAML integration, and configure role-based access control in OpenSearch Dashboards by using group attributes in IAM Identity Center. You can follow the steps in this post to achieve both authentication and authorization for OpenSearch Service based on the groups configured in IAM Identity Center.

Click through for the process.