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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

Creating an Amazon Cognito app client

In this recipe, we will create an app client for a user pool. An app client is needed to perform unauthenticated calls such as sign in, sign up, and forgot password. This is a small recipe, but this recipe and the previous one form the basis for further recipes in this chapter.

Getting ready

We need to create a user pool based on the Creating Amazon Cognito user pools recipe.

How to do it...

We can create an app client for an existing user pool as follows:

  1. Go to the Amazon Cognito dashboard, click on Manage user pools, and then click...
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