Implementing Identity Management on AWS

Chapter 5: Introducing Amazon Cognito

So far, we have approached identity for AWS in the context of managing authentication and authorization to AWS resources within an AWS account. We've examined the primary service that governs that access, known as AWS IAM, and seen how user accounts are managed, how their credentials are administrated, and how authorization policies are applied. Most of these use cases focus on using AWS in the context of an Infrastructure as a Service platform.

Amazon Cognito is, above all, a service for applications, with documentation and examples targeted at application developers. In fact, many of the use cases attempt to solve certain use cases by offering reference implementations that further enmesh the application ...