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AWS IAM: Added outbound federation documentation

Service: IAM · 2026-08-07 · Documentation medium

File: IAM/latest/UserGuide/id_roles_providers.md · Type: credentials

Summary

Added link to federating identities to external services

Security assessment

Documents credential-less access pattern to external services

Evidence

+  * For instructions on enabling your AWS workloads to access external services without storing credentials, see [Federating AWS Identities to external services](./id_roles_providers_outbound.html).

Diff

diff --git a/IAM/latest/UserGuide/id_roles_providers.md b/IAM/latest/UserGuide/id_roles_providers.md
index bade44f67..24c99e7c3 100644
--- a//IAM/latest/UserGuide/id_roles_providers.md
+++ b//IAM/latest/UserGuide/id_roles_providers.md
@@ -83,0 +84,2 @@ Amazon Cognito works with external identity providers that support SAML and Open
+  * For instructions on enabling your AWS workloads to access external services without storing credentials, see [Federating AWS Identities to external services](./id_roles_providers_outbound.html).
+