In this post, I plan to show an example of Spring Boot Application authentication with AWS Cognito. I will show two flows 1) OIDC Authentication 2) SAML Authentication.
AWS Cognito
AWS Cognito is a web service from AWS. Cognito is a user directory as well as an authentication mechanism service. In the enterprise industry, every application has two requirements from a user perspective.
- User Directory and Synchronization
- User Authentication
Cognito makes this easier by allowing the creation of a user pool or an identity pool. Once you have a pool, you can configure an application with the various settings for authentication. Another major advantage of Cognito is that it offers industry-standard security authentication protocols like OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, SAML.
There are equally other features like user access handling, but we won’t go into detail about that as part of this post. In this post, I will further show how we can create a user pool and configure an application to use that user pool.
#authentication #spring-boot #sso #cognito #aws
