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Re:Ask HN: How do you currently solve authentication? by friedman23 on Monday January 27, 2020 @02:07AM (#22157395)
I want to use cognito but the documentation is not good. For example, how do I use cognito to authorize against an api I wrote? It's not clear from the documentation.
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Re:Ask HN: How do you currently solve authentication? by stephenemslie on Monday January 27, 2020 @03:05AM (#22157629)
You'd probably use a custom workflow backed by lambda functions that interact with your api: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cognito/latest/developerguide/co...
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Re:Ask HN: How do you currently solve authentication? by cs02rm0 on Monday January 27, 2020 @02:33AM (#22157508)
As a rule I think if you feel you're outside the sweet spot of an AWS service before you start using it, I'd take that as a steer that it's probably not the right route to go.
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Re:Ask HN: How do you currently solve authentication? by mazatta on Monday January 27, 2020 @02:45PM (#22163008)
It feels like someone's hackathon project that was accidentally deployed to production, and has been running ever since.
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