Amazon cloud application

1. Sign in to your Google Admin console .

   Sign in using an account with super administrator privileges  (does not end in @gmail.com).

2. In the Admin console, go to Menu  SecurityAuthenticationSSO with SAML applications.

   You must be signed in as a  super administrator  for this task.

3. At the bottom of the  Security Settings page, download and save the IdP metadatafile.

In the next step, you'll email  this information to Amazon support. After they respond, you return to the Admin console in Step 3 below to finish SSO configuration.

Send an email to Amazon support asking them to enable SSO for your account. Attach the IdP metadata file you downloaded in Step 1.

Amazon will process your request and provide you with the ACS URL and Entity ID values you need to configure SSO in the Admin console in the next step.

1. Sign in to your Google Admin console .

   Sign in using an account with super administrator privileges  (does not end in @gmail.com).

2. In the Admin console, go to Menu  Apps Web and mobile apps.
3. Click Add app Search for apps.
4. Enter Amazonin the search field.
5. In the search results, hover over the AmazonSAML app and click Select.
6. Click Continue.
7. On the Service provider detailspage, replace the  ACS URLand Entity ID values with the URLs provided by Amazon support.
8. Click Continue.
9. (Optional) To map Google directory attributes to the corresponding app attributes, in the Attribute Mappingwindow:

   1. Click Add Mapping.
   2. Click Select fieldselect a Google directory attribute.
   3. For  App attributes, enter the corresponding app attribute.
10. (Optional) To enter group names that are relevant for this app:

    1. For Group membership (optional), click Search for a group, enter one or more letters of the group name, and select the group name.
    2. Add additional groups as needed (maximum of 75 groups).
    3. For App attribute, enter the service provider’s corresponding groups attribute name.

    Regardless of how many group names you enter, the SAML response will include only groups that a user is a member of (directly or indirectly). For more information, go to  About group membership mapping .

11. On the Attribute mappingpage, click  Finish.

1. Sign in to your Google Admin console .

   Sign in using an account with super administrator privileges  (does not end in @gmail.com).

2. In the Admin console, go to Menu  Apps Web and mobile apps.
3. Select  Amazon.
4. Click  User access.

5. To turn a service on or off for everyone in your organization, click  On for everyoneor  Off for everyone, and then click  Save.

6. (Optional) To turn a service on or off for an organizational unit:

   1. At the left, select the organizational unit.
   2. To change the Service status, select  Onor  Off.
   3. Choose one:
      • If the Service status is set to  Inherited and you want to keep the updated setting, even if the parent setting changes, click Override.
      • If the Service status is set to  Overridden, either click Inheritto revert to the same setting as its parent, or click  Saveto keep the new setting, even if the parent setting changes.
        Note: Learn more about organizational structure .
7. To turn on a service for a set of users across or within organizational units, select an access group. For details, go to Use groups to customize service access .
8. Ensure that your Amazon user account email IDs match those in your Google domain.

Amazon supports both Identity Provider (IdP) initiated and Service Provider (SP) initiated SSO. Follow these steps to verify SSO in either mode:

IdP-initiated

1. Sign in to your Google Admin console .

   Sign in using an account with super administrator privileges  (does not end in @gmail.com).

2. In the Admin console, go to Menu  Apps Web and mobile apps.
3. Select  Amazon.
4. At the top left, click Test SAML login. 

   Amazon should open in a separate tab. If it doesn’t, use the information in the resulting SAML error messages to update your IdP and SP settings as needed, then retest SAML login.

SP-initiated

1. Close all browser windows.
2. Open https://{ subdomain }.Amazon.com/, replacing {subdomain}  with your Amazon account subdomain, and attempt to sign in. You should be automatically redirected to the Google sign in page.
3. Enter your sign in credentials.
4. After your sign in credentials are authenticated, you are automatically redirected back to Amazon.