AWS Security Blog
Tag: authentication
How to add authentication to a single-page web application with Amazon Cognito OAuth2 implementation
In this post, I’ll be showing you how to configure Amazon Cognito as an OpenID provider (OP) with a single-page web application. This use case describes using Amazon Cognito to integrate with an existing authorization system following the OpenID Connect (OIDC) specification. OIDC is an identity layer on top of the OAuth 2.0 protocol to […]
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Use AWS Lambda authorizers with a third-party identity provider to secure Amazon API Gateway REST APIs
February 24, 2021: We updated this post to fix a typo in the IAM policy in the “Building a Lambda authorizer” section. Note: This post focuses on Amazon API Gateway REST APIs used with OAuth 2.0 and custom AWS Lambda authorizers. API Gateway also offers HTTP APIs, which provide native OAuth 2.0 features. For more […]
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Announcing the new AWS Certified Security – Specialty exam
Good news for cloud security experts: the AWS Certified Security — Specialty exam is here. This new exam allows experienced cloud security professionals to demonstrate and validate their knowledge of how to secure the AWS platform. About the exam The security exam covers incident response, logging and monitoring, infrastructure security, identity and access management, and […]
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