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Integrate with Amazon Business

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What is Amazon Business​

Amazon Business is Amazon's procurement platform for organizations, providing managed purchasing, approval workflows, and analytics across Amazon's marketplace.

-- https://amazon.com

Preparation​

The following placeholders are used in this guide:

  • authentik.company is the FQDN of the authentik installation.
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This documentation lists only the settings that you need to change from their default values. Be aware that any changes other than those explicitly mentioned in this guide could cause issues accessing your application.

Domain verification

Amazon Business SSO works without first verifying your domain. For seamless onboarding and auto-provisioning, Amazon recommends completing Domain verification (found under System integrations) before configuring SSO. This verification process is outside the scope of this guide.

Download Amazon Business metadata file​

First you will need to download the SAML metadata file from Amazon Business. This file will be imported into authentik to configure the SAML provider.

  1. Log in to the Amazon Business admin console as an administrator and click Business Settings under Hello, "Your Name".
  2. Under System integrations, select Single Sign-On (SSO). You will be redirected to the Amazon Business SSO setup workflow (for example, https://www.amazon.com/ab/sso/setup/edit/select-idp; your domain may use a different TLD such as .de or .co.uk).
  3. Download the Amazon_SP_Metadata.xml file from the bottom of the Amazon Business SSO configuration page.

authentik configuration​

To support the integration of Amazon Business with authentik, you need to create an application/provider pair in authentik.

Create a provider in authentik via metadata​

  1. Log in to authentik as an administrator and open the authentik Admin interface.
  2. Navigate to Applications > Providers and click Create.
    • Choose a Provider type: select SAML Provider (from Metadata) as the provider type.
    • Configure the Provider:
      • Provide a name.
      • Select the authorization and invalidation flows to use for this provider.
      • For Metadata select the Amazon_SP_Metadata.xml file that you previously downloaded.
  3. Click Finish.
  4. Click the Edit icon of the newly created provider.
  5. Under Advanced protocol settings, set the following settings:
    • Under Signing Certificate, select any available certificate and make sure Sign Assertions and Sign Responses are enabled.
    • Remove every entry from Selected User Property Mappings except for authentik default SAML Mapping: Name and authentik default SAML Mapping: Email.
  6. Click Finish.

Create an application in authentik​

  1. Log in to authentik as an administrator and open the authentik Admin interface.
  2. Navigate to Applications > Applications and click Create.
  3. Fill in the form with the following required information:
    • Provide a name and slug.
    • Under Provider, select the provider created in the previous section.
  4. Click Create.

Download the metadata file​

  1. Log in to authentik as an administrator and open the authentik Admin interface.
  2. Navigate to Applications > Providers and click the newly created Amazon Business provider.
  3. Under Metadata, click Download. This metadata file will be required in the next section.

Amazon Business configuration​

  1. Log in to the Amazon Business admin console as an administrator and click Business Settings under Hello, "Your Name".
  2. Under System integrations, select Single Sign-On (SSO). You will be redirected to the Amazon Business SSO setup workflow (for example, https://www.amazon.com/ab/sso/setup/edit/select-idp; your domain may use a different TLD such as .de or .co.uk).
  3. In Change IdP selection, select Other and provide a descriptive name for your identity provider (for example, authentik).
  4. Set Encrypted SAML assertions to Off.
  5. In New user account defaults, enable Select a default group and select the default buying role (Amazon Business sets Buyer unless you specify custom roles).
  6. In Connection data, upload the authentik metadata file (metadata.xml) that you downloaded.
  7. In Attribute mapping, verify that the full name and email attributes are mapped. Adjust as required (for example, http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/05/identity/claims/name for the full name and http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/05/identity/claims/emailaddress for the email).
  8. Use Start testing to confirm that Amazon Business can redirect to authentik and complete SSO.
  9. After a successful test, click Activate and confirm the change to enable the authentik SSO connection.

Configuration verification​

To confirm that authentik is properly configured with Amazon Business, log out of Amazon Business. Then, on the Amazon login page, enter an email address that belongs to a domain with SSO configured, and click Next. You should be redirected to authentik to log in, and, if successful, be redirected to the Amazon Business portal.

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