Thanks to Sonrai Security for making this lesson free! Learn how their Cloud Permissions Firewall can enable least privilege for your cloud in a single click and with zero disruption: In this lesson from our AWS Certified Security Specialty (SCS-C03) course, we introduce Amazon Cognito and explain how it’s used to manage end users and customers for web and mobile applications. We cover what problems Cognito solves, including user sign-up, sign-in, authentication, social login, and access control for application users. You’ll learn the difference between Cognito user pools and identity pools, how they work together, and how Cognito exchanges authentication tokens for temporary AWS credentials. We also walk through how Cognito supports both attribute-based access control (ABAC) and role-based access control (RBAC), with real-world examples like free vs paid users accessing backend resources such as Amazon S3. This lesson helps you understand when Cognito is the right choice for application-facing identity management and how it fits into AWS’s broader IAM ecosystem. #AWS #AWSCertified #AWSSecuritySpecialty