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AWS Security Cookbook
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AWS Security Cookbook

by Heartin Kanikathottu
February 2020
Intermediate to advanced
440 pages
13h 51m
English
Packt Publishing
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User Pools and Identity Pools with Cognito

In this chapter, we will learn about Amazon Cognito. Cognito is Amazon's serverless user identity management service. Amazon Cognito can be used as an identity provider and an identity broker. As an identity provider, Cognito enables us to manage our own user pools. As an identity broker, Cognito helps us to make use of other identity providers such as Amazon, Google, Facebook, and Twitter. While most other chapters in this book discuss services related to infrastructure security on AWS, this chapter focuses mostly on application security concepts such as user pools, user signups, authentication and authorization flows, and federated identity logins.

In this chapter, we will cover the following ...

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