AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) offers a continuum of interfaces and configuration options that enables customers to integrate their unique organizational identity structure and operational processes to the AWS platform. In this session we will evaluate the progressive journey of federation options that most customers go through as they widen their integration with IAM. This will include best practices, lessons learned from the field, and examples of actual customer implementations, covering technologies such as SAML, LDAP, and custom identity brokers.