AWS Classroomnotes 06/Aug/2023

AWS STS (Security Token Service)

• AWS provides STS as a webservice that enables to request temporary and limited-previlege credentials to users Refer Here
• Actions
  • AssumeRole Refer Here
    
• STS is used for
  • Roles
  • Federated users
• External identities can be used to authenticate by using identity provider
  
• For these external users we need to use STS for authorization

AWS Identity as a Service => AWS Cognito

• Refer Here for the official page of AWS Cognito
• Refer Here for docs
• Refer Here for sample code for MFA to your application