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Expert AWS Development

By : Atul Mistry
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Expert AWS Development

By: Atul Mistry

Overview of this book

Expert AWS Development begins with the installation of the AWS SDK and you will go on to get hands-on experience of creating an application using the AWS Management Console and the AWS Command Line Interface (CLI). Then, you will integrate applications with AWS services such as DynamoDB, Amazon Kinesis, AWS Lambda, Amazon SQS, and Amazon SWF. Following this, you will get well versed with CI/CD workflow and work with four major phases in the release process – Source, Build, Test, and Production. Then, you will learn to apply AWS Developer tools to your Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Deployment (CD) workflow. Later, you will learn about user authentication using Amazon Cognito, and also how you can evaluate the best architecture as per your infrastructure costs. You will learn about Amazon EC2 service and will deploy an app using it. You will also deploy a practical real-world example of a CI/CD application with the Serverless Application Framework, which is known as AWS Lambda. Finally, you will learn how to build, develop, and deploy the Application using AWS Developer tools such as AWS CodeCommit, AWS CodeBuild, AWS CodeDeploy, and AWS CodePipeline, as per your project requirements.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Title Page
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Chapter 6. User Authentication with AWS Cognito

In the previous chapter, we discussed the AWS Code family of tools, such as AWS CodeDeploy, AWS CodePipeline, AWS CodeStar, and AWS X-Ray.

In this chapter, we will discuss the AWS Cognito service for simple and secure user authentication for mobile and web applications.

Amazon Cognito is a user authentication service that enables user sign-up and sign-in, and access control for mobile and web applications, easily, quickly, and securely. In Amazon Cognito, you can create your user directory, which allows the application to work when the devices are not online and to save data on the user's device and synchronize it. It gives a consistent application experience to the user, regardless of the device.

Amazon Cognito supports, to scale, millions of users and authenticates users from social identity providers such as Facebook, Google, Twitter, Amazon, or enterprise identity providers, such as Microsoft Active Directory through SAML, or your own identity...