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AWS Cognito — Web Application Integration Basics
Introduction
In previous post on AWS Cognito Basics — User Pools. we covered the basics of AWS Cognito and also created a User pool. Following is the recap:
Recap
AWS Cognito lets you add user sign-up, sign-in and access-control to your web and mobile apps quickly and easily:
- User pools are user directories.
- Signup and Singin services.
- A built in customizable web UI to sing users.
- Social Sign-in with IDPs.
- User directories management and user profiles.
- Security features (MFA, password policy etc.)
- It is also integrated with Lambda triggers.
- Also provides the ability to create groups and assign users to groups.
Furthermore we also created a public app-client (web app) and configured its callback and sign-out redirect URLs and OAuth 2.0 Flows (Authorization Code Grant and implicit grant).
Please refer to previous post if you are new to these topics.
What We Will Cover Today
So we know the theory and what AWS Cognito is offering to us and now lets take a step further and implement the…