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Identity pools - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial
From the course: Learning Amazon Web Services (AWS) for Developers
Identity pools
- [Instructor] Now that we've talked about roles and their policies, we want to talk about the very common scenario of having a case where users are logging into your app or website, and then they're going to need permissions. Once they're authenticated, they need authorization to do something, typically to hit an API or to hit a Lambda, something like that. And for that, we're going to use Cognito. So I'm going to go back down to the services of Security, Identity, & Compliance and click on Cognito. Now I mentioned the two types of pools, user pools and identity pools. User pools helps the system authenticate a user. It's the identity pool that gives them authorization. So I'm going to click Identity Pools, and we're going to create a new one. So the identity pool, we'll just call it MyIDPool. And then you have to decide if you want to allow unauthenticated entities. So this is kind of interesting. This is the case…
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