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Nicolas Menciere

Author: Nicolas Menciere

Nicolas is a Senior Startup Solution Architect based in New York. He helps high potential Web3 and FinTech startups succeed on AWS. A startup founder himself, he's been in the space for more than 15 years. Specializing in software development, security, and user experiences, he's now an active advocate of Web3 technologies.

Architecture diagram showing authentication and API request proxy solution for Web3

dApp authentication with Amazon Cognito and Web3 proxy with Amazon API Gateway

If your decentralized application (dApp) must interact directly with AWS services like Amazon S3 or Amazon API Gateway, you must authorize your users by granting them temporary AWS credentials. This solution uses Amazon Cognito in combination with your users’ digital wallet to obtain valid Amazon Cognito identities and temporary AWS credentials for your users. It […]