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I want to use cognito but the documentation is not good. For example, how do I use cognito to authorize against an api I wrote? It's not clear from the document

I want to use cognito but the documentation is not good. For example, how do I use cognito to authorize against an api I wrote? It's not clear from the documentation.

cs02rm0 7y ago
As a rule I think if you feel you're outside the sweet spot of an AWS service before you start using it, I'd take that as a steer that it's probably not the right route to go.
stephenemslie 7y ago
You'd probably use a custom workflow backed by lambda functions that interact with your api: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cognito/latest/developerguide/cognito-user-identity-pools-working-with-aws-lambda-triggers.html https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cognito/latest/developerguide/co...
mazatta 7y ago
It feels like someone's hackathon project that was accidentally deployed to production, and has been running ever since.