AWS Cognito and Web Applications – Protecting and Accessing APIs (JavaScript and .NET Core)

Introduction A typical web application consists of a frontend (HTML, JavaScript, CSS), a backend (e.g. REST API) and database for persistence. Frontend typically communicate over REST calls to the backend for services. Token based authentication is a very common way to manage authentication and authorization information back and forth in the web applications. Applications need … Read more

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 … Read more

AWS Cognito Basics – User Pools

Introduction Amazon Cognito is a robust user directory service that handles user registration, authentication, account recovery & other operations for easy and fast web/mobile application development. This service helps you manage your authentication, authorization and user management functions so that you can focus on your application management rather than managing users and authentication. AWS Cognito … Read more