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Authenticating AWS Cognito with Laravel
AWS Cognito is AWS's authentication managed service that integrates natively with API Gateway & Application Load Balancer. Users can sign up directly with Cognito, Sign In & Recover password.
We needed API Gateway to get automatic validation, but we use Application Load Balancer in front of our APIs instead of API Gateway.
We can write a custom User Provider that will receive a Cognito Token, validate it and then return an authenticatable object.
Once I finished the code, I had a working authentication process that could validate and parse AWS Cognito tokens and make them an Authenticatable user for me.
We needed API Gateway to get automatic validation, but we use Application Load Balancer in front of our APIs instead of API Gateway.
We can write a custom User Provider that will receive a Cognito Token, validate it and then return an authenticatable object.
Once I finished the code, I had a working authentication process that could validate and parse AWS Cognito tokens and make them an Authenticatable user for me.
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