Institutional Shibboleth IdP with Amazon Web Services SP?

[Jim Fox]

> I’ve been asked whether our IdP can readily support AWS logins as outlined
> in:http://docs.aws.amazon.com/STS/latest/UsingSTS/STSMgmtConsole-SAML.html and
> http://blogs.aws.amazon.com/security/post/TxRTTT5PLUE6B5/How-to-use-Shibboleth-for-single-sign-on-to-the-AWS-Management-Console
> 
> A quick read gave me the impression it should almost straightforward, but I would appreciate hearing from other institutions with generic
> Shibboleth IdP (i.e., not hosted at AWS) that have succeeded (or failed!) providing institutional authN/attributes to AWS service via
> institutional IdP.
>

I did this a month or so ago.  It worked as advertised.

Jim