intermediate~2h
Amazon Cognito
Managed user authentication and identity for your applications — sign-up, sign-in, and temporary AWS credentials for end users, without building auth infrastructure yourself.
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🎓 Learning objectives
- •Explain the difference between a Cognito User Pool and an Identity Pool
- •Explain how Cognito issues and validates JWTs for authenticated API calls
- •Explain how federated (social/enterprise) sign-in works with Cognito
- •Explain when an application needs an Identity Pool in addition to a User Pool
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