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Cornell AWS account owners can create custom AWS IAM roles and have them linked to Cornell AD so that users with Cornell netids can use Shibboleth to authenticate to AWS and be granted the privileges in the custom role.

Cornell AWS account administrators already take advantage of this capability when they use Shibboleth to login to the AWS console. The IAM role named shib-admin in each Cornell AWS account typically grants full admin privileges in the form of the AWS-managed policy named "AdministratorAccess". A second standard role named "shib-cs" grants read-only access to each Cornell AWS account. This is used by the cloud support team when Cornell AWS users ask for assistance with their account.

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