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Identity provider (IdP) - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial
From the course: Learning Amazon Web Services (AWS) for Developers
Identity provider (IdP)
- [Instructor] So now we have an identity pool. That means for any authorized or unauthorized user, it assigns them that role that we specified depending on their authorization. And then they have the permissions related to that role. So how do they get into the identity pool? That's done by the authentication providers. So we specify how they get authenticated into this identity pool. Now, a very common one is to use Cognito itself. That's where the user pool comes in. But you can use some other services like Amazon, where you put in the app ID or Apple, Facebook. All of these services have different routes, but typically you would go there, create the Facebook app or the Google app, and you would get the client ID and follow the steps for creating that. Open ID and SAML typically are for existing server logins and you would have to facilitate that authentication through the steps in IAM. We're going to use Cognito. So we…
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