Amazon Cognito is an offering from Amazon Web Services that you can use to manage user accounts. It provides authentication and authorization as well as enabling integration with Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) and OpenID Connect (OIDC) compatible identity providers.
In this hands-on lab, you will use the Amazon Web Services Management Console to create users, register an application with Amazon Cognito, and test user authentication.
Upon completion of this lab you will be able to:
Familiarity with the following will be beneficial but is not required:
The following course can be used to fulfill the prerequisites:
After completing the lab instructions the environment should look similar to:
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January 10th, 2019 - Added a validation Lab Step to check the work you perform in the Lab