Authenticating users in the load balancer with Cognito

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OpenID Connect Landing Page

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OpenID Connect

OpenID Connect page

One way to solve this problem is to configure the ALB to authenticate users. ALB supports OIDC compliant identity providers, social and corporate identities.

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Application Load Balance Landing Page

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ALB

Application Load Balance

Automatically distribute incoming traffic across multiple targets using an Application Load Balancer.

Say that we have an application running behind a public-facing Application Load Balancer (ALB). The load balancer's target can be any supported target, including ECS containers, EC2 instances or even Lambda functions. Because the application is only available to authenticated users, we want to find a solution to identify them.

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Amazon Route 53 Landing Page

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Amazon Route 53

Amazon Route 53 is a highly available and scalable DNS web service.

In this case, we configure MY_CUSTOM_DOMAIN to be an alias A record in Route 53 with the load balancer being the target value.

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AWS Lambda Landing Page
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AWS Lambda

Automatic, event-driven compute service
Pricing:
- Open Source
Say that we have an application running behind a public-facing Application Load Balancer (ALB). The load balancer's target can be any supported target, including ECS containers, EC2 instances or even Lambda functions. Because the application is only available to authenticated users, we want to find a solution to identify them.

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Amazon EC2 Landing Page
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Amazon EC2

Amazon Web Services offers reliable, scalable, and inexpensive cloud computing services. Free to join, pay only for what you use.
Pricing:
- Open Source
Say that we have an application running behind a public-facing Application Load Balancer (ALB). The load balancer's target can be any supported target, including ECS containers, EC2 instances or even Lambda functions. Because the application is only available to authenticated users, we want to find a solution to identify them.

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AWS Certificate Manager Landing Page

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AWS Certificate Manager

AWS Certificate Manager from Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Because of that, we'll need a valid public certificate, which we can request in Certificate Manager for free.

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Amazon API Gateway Landing Page

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Amazon API Gateway

Create, publish, maintain, monitor, and secure APIs at any scale

The ALB performs user authentication only. It checks if the user is indeed someone our application should know. In this regard the principle is similar to what API Gateway does when it authenticates users with Cognito ID tokens. It identifies the user and verifies that the user is legitimate.

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