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AWS Security Cookbook

You're reading from   AWS Security Cookbook Practical solutions for managing security policies, monitoring, auditing, and compliance with AWS

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838826253
Length 440 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Managing AWS Accounts with IAM and Organizations 2. Securing Data on S3 with Policies and Techniques FREE CHAPTER 3. User Pools and Identity Pools with Cognito 4. Key Management with KMS and CloudHSM 5. Network Security with VPC 6. Working with EC2 Instances 7. Web Security Using ELBs, CloudFront, and WAF 8. Monitoring with CloudWatch, CloudTrail, and Config 9. Compliance with GuardDuty, Macie, and Inspector 10. Additional Services and Practices for AWS Security 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

Working with Cognito groups

In this recipe, we will create two groups and assign users to those groups.

Getting ready

Create a user pool with a default configuration on the basis of the Creating Amazon Cognito user pools recipe. Steps to create a user pool from the CLI are provided with code files. I have created a user pool with default configurations and its ID is us-east-1_Q1cydt6I0. Replace it with your ID within the recipe.

We require an administrator user and should configure a profile in the AWS CLI for this user. I have created a user and profile with the name awssecadmin. Replace it with your CLI profile name within the recipe.

We require three users: testuser1, testuser2, and testuser3. We can create the users...

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