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Evaluate authorization

Evaluate authorization

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Evaluate authorization

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- [Instructor] It's important to be able to evaluate the current authentication infrastructure at an organization in order to improve it using the AWS Cloud. And in particular, the Cognito system is a good starting point. It provides both authentication and authorization for web and mobile apps, and users can sign in with a username and a password through third parties such as Facebook, Amazon, Google, or Apple. And there's a couple of main components, including user pools and identity pools. Let's go ahead and take a look at a scenario with Cognito. There are scenarios where the identity pool would grant users access to services or a user pool would allow sign up and sign in for applications. So let's go ahead and take a few scenarios here and look at them. The first is auth with a user pool. Cognito is able to get tokens and those come from the user pool, and then a user is able to then proceed to social sign in. Also, with an identity pool you're able to authenticate and get tokens…

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