AWS Workshops

This website lists workshops created by the teams at Amazon Web Services (AWS). Workshops are hands-on events designed to teach or introduce practical skills, techniques, or concepts which you can use to solve business problems.
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Security Workshops

Tag: Verified Permissions
Cognito JWT Deep Dive
Level: 300
Categories: Cognito, Security, Identity, SaaS, CDK
Tags: Cognito, IAM, S3, Verified Permissions
2 hours

Dive deep on how Amazon Cognito issued tokens authorize access to APIs and AWS resources. A custom web application explores the structure of JSON Web Tokens (JWTs), including header, payload, and signature verification. Cognito JWTs are exchanged for IAM Temporary Security Credentials or passed to Amazon Verified Permissions in separate workflows authorizing retrieval of Amazon S3 objects. Cognito users are representative of a multi-tenant SaaS solution. Stack deployed via CDK.

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Amazon Cognito Workshop
Level: 300
Categories: Cognito, Identity, Identity and Access Management, Security
Tags: Cognito, Verified Permissions, API Gateway, Lambda
8 hours

In this workshop, you will learn about Amazon Cognito User Pools, Identity Pools, the Cognito SDK usage, Machine-to-Machine authentication, SAML SSO, Passwordless integration, Migrating to Cognito, Amazon Verified Permissions integration, and how to secure Cognito. After completing the first lab, most of these labs can be executed on their own, allowing you to choose which labs to do based on your learning requirements.

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Amazon Verified Permissions - TinyTodo Workshop
Level: 300
Categories: Identity, Identity and Access Management, Security
Tags: Verified Permissions, Cognito, API Gateway
6 hours

In this workshop, you will learn about Amazon Verified Permissions, how to create Cedar policies, Amazon Cognito and API Gateway Integration, and how to troubleshoot policies. This is the primary Verified Permissions workshop and will include additional labs as they are developed.

Amazon Verified Permissions - TinyTodo Workshop
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