Using AWS Cognito to authorize access to API Gateway
I’m writing a simple web application that at the moment basically does this: In the web app, users log in The web app contacts AWS Cognito for user authentication. In AWS Cognito, I’ve set up a user pool, think of it as a database, in which my users are stored. When a user sign in, AWS Cognito checks the user pool to verify the password. AWS Cognitor responds with different JWT tokens, including an ID token for the user The…