Amazon Cognito is an AWS service that lets you easily add users’ management to web and mobile apps. It supports social identity providers, such as Facebook, Google and enterprise identity providers via SAML 2.0. A powerful service. At first, hard to...
Amazon API Gateway is a fully managed service that makes it easy to handle REST APIs. The main task of this service is to bind an HTTP endpoint to a given backend service, like a Lambda function. Fig.1 – Business logic exposed as REST API using Amazo...
For those of you who might not be familiar with, AWS Lambda is a service platform that let us run our code without provisioning or managing servers. We just upload the source code and the platform takes care of everything required to run and scale it...
JSON Web Token (JWT) is an open standard (RFC 7519) that defines a way for transmitting information – like authentication and authorization facts – between two parties: an issuer and an audience. Communication is safe because each token issued is dig...
