Secure your API Gateway with Amazon Cognito User Pools | Step by Step AWS Tutorial

Amazon Cognito is a powerful AWS service that enables user logins and federated identities. Cognito can be leveraged as an authentication and authorization mechanism for your APIs built through AWS API Gateway. In this video, I show you how to create an Amazon Cognito User Pool and attach it as an authentication handler to your API Gateway REST api.

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[davyboy]

love that you don’t scrub the mistakes out of your videos. thats how real life goes, and i feel it’s important for those new to the industry to see their seniors working through mistakes. great video.

[mogomotsiseiphemo]

Great video!

At this point 23:45, to avoid having to manually change from "code" to "token" in the redirect, you just have to select "Implicit grant" only when setting the OAuth 2.0 Auth Flow at 7:20!

[fatihersoy]

This video made me subscribe to your channel immediately. It's impressing how easy to understand from you, especially after spending hours on understanding nothing about the topic.

[TheTruthNotControl]

This was a brilliant tutorial. I have watched many videos from various people on youtube, udemy and you name it, I have been on the sites. Yet you talked in such a, lets get this done and ill show you manner instead of lots of talking but spoke about a process when needed was just great. I learned alot from this, thank you. I subbed and liked this video.

[jeromeeusebius]

BeABetterDev: Thanks for putting this video together. I followed the API Gateway Lambda one and this version with Cognito. The option is Cognito is much richer and I will be exploring it with my app. It is good that the video is also an actual workthrough with details and it was easy and nice to follow and I was able to replicate the results.

[Ryuugaminechan]

Was stuck with this for a couple of hours now. Didn't realize that you need to deploy the API after making changes. This video really helped me. Thanks!

[meysammahmoudi]

This is a really great video, simple and straightforward. thanks a lot

[ChardsonX]

I want to thank you! This lesson was really helpful and straightforward. Congratulations!

[bboyBoomgaarden]

THANK YOU!!! I spent my entire day trying to figure out why I wasn't getting the id_token returned and it was because the URL i was using didn't have openid added to the URL!!!! I read every doc and stack overflow article I could find, thank you for making this video!! You got yourself another subscriber :D

[INMYMIND]

This is amazing, this helps me a lot in building side projects user authentication!!

[pmsms]

amazing video, just right speed and right contents for api security with AWS

[arpankhetani]

Thank you for the well explaination of the Cognito and the demo.. It worked smoothly for me following the steps you mentioned..

[arkadiyshuvaev]

Great work! I have learnt a lot from your video. Thank you and all the best :)

[eugenevedensky]

This video along with your RDS lambda integration video is pretty much all you need to get a robust web app going super quickly. Great content.

EDIT: In case you ever read this, do you have any insight how you might apply RBAC with this strategy?

[ryanl]

Dude, this video is gold. Thank you 🙏

[sebastiencrepel]

Hello. Thank you so much. This step by step video is a gold mine !

[rohitghalistudies]

Mind blown... Was looking for exactly this. Fantastic.

[chrisnuttle]

Actually practical thanks a lot. This has helped me a lot.

[cachuelasaimonrobertl.]

You're an absolute mad lad! saved me hours of reading docs lol

[tonislavatanasov]

Exactly what I was looking for. Thanks! You just got yourself another sub