AWS Security Blog

Tag: OpenID Connect

Reduce risk by implementing HttpOnly cookie authentication in Amazon API Gateway

September 8, 2023: It’s important to know that if you activate user sign-up in your user pool, anyone on the internet can sign up for an account and sign in to your apps. Don’t enable self-registration in your user pool unless you want to open your app to allow users to sign up. Some web […]

Building an App Using Amazon Cognito and an OpenID Connect Identity Provider

January 11, 2023: This blog post has been updated to reflect the correct OAuth 2.0 endpoint for the Identity Provider (IdP) used and to use an updated version of the AWS SDK for JavaScript. This post has also been refreshed with updated steps to configure an Amazon Cognito Identity Pool and creating a Connected App […]