Managing users is a requirement of virtually every system. Over a long career, I can certainly attest to creating identity management functionality over and over again. Fortunately, we can now get this functionality as a service from many providers, including our cloud providers. And because there are so many options available, we need a federated solution that delegates to many other identity management systems while presenting a single, unified model to our cloud-native system. In this recipe, we will show how to create an AWS Cognito user pool, which we will then use in other recipes to secure our services.
Creating a federated identity pool
How to do it...
- Create the project from the following template:
$ sls create...