Serverless Programming Cookbook

Step 2 - Creating and Configuring an Identity Pool

Let's now create and configure an identity pool from the AWS CLI:

1. Create a provider.json file, with Google as the provider name and the client ID received from the previous step:

{ "accounts.google.com" : "55367180174-6brhjc2v6kdllcejabnr1e46957f72te.apps.googleusercontent.com" }

2. Create an identity pool:

aws cognito-identity create-identity-pool \    --identity-pool-name qnatimepool \    --no-allow-unauthenticated-identities \    --supported-login-providers file://provider.json    --profile admin

You should get a response similar to this:

3. Create a policy that allows the necessary permissions to ...