I've set up a user pool in Amazon Cognito for my web application. The application is not meant to be public and only specific users are allowed to sign in. The policies of that user pool in the Ama...

I login to AWS with my Active Directory account in my company. We are using federated login, as described here: Federated Users and Roles Federated users don't have permanent identities in your AW...

I haven't found a clear answer addressing this topic, which is surprising given that it seems like a common scenario. Can anyone provide some guidance or official resources for setting up this type...

What is the difference between an IAM role and an IAM user? The IAM FAQ has an entry explaining it, but it was vague and not very clear: An IAM user has permanent long-term credentials and is us...

It is easy to sign into an AWS Cognito session either via username and password or federated identity using { Auth } from 'aws-amplify' by Auth.signIn({ username: email, password: password}) or Au...

Both Google and Facebook can act as Identity Providers in a security federation setup like Ping Identity or Microsoft ACS. Does anyone know if it is possible to add Apple Id as an identity provide...

Multiple AWS Cognito Federated Identities (e.g. Facebook and Google logins for the same email) can be merged into a single identity by passing both logins in the Cognito call. But knowing that I ca...

I am developing test application for displaying claims of authenticated identity in MVC-ASP.net (Visual studio 2013) I have given authentication from active directory in following way. 1.Add new m...

I have created an Azure tenancy and configured the following: Azure AD with: A simple custom domain name (less than 15 characters). DNS verified etc. All good. Users and Admins groups Users in ...

Story: I have a Cognito User Pool with Users. This User Pool is an authentication provider in a Federated Identity Pool. I have an S3 bucket where users are limited to uploading to a private pat...

We are a Service Provider who has SAML enabled our app to allow for IdPs to authenticate users for us. To make sure everyone is on the same page Identity Provider (IdP) is an application whose jo...

I'm trying to set up a basic website (serverless on AWS) that would allow visitors to login with Google and/or Facebook. Currently I'm planning to use S3, Cognito with Federated Identities, API Gat...

I have a usecase where I need to restrict a federated user to launch only one EC2 instance, is there any workaround to setup these things in policy.

I'm not sure why but my FederatedAuthentication.SessionAuthenticationModule is resolving as NULL and crashing my app when I try to run my ClaimsTransformer() module: public void EstablishSession(...

What's the difference between WS-Trust, WS-Fed and SAML 1.1/ 2.0 protocols? My understanding on these protocols gets confused when SAML is used as a security token in WS-Trust and WS-Fed protocols...

I am trying to understand differences between Federated Authentication and Delegated Authentication, But I am getting more and more confused. Do we use SAML protocol ALWAYS for Federated Authenti...

I would like to use a Cognito User Pool for Facebook logins only, which may be possible using the built in login form, but I need to use my own. Theoretically, when it comes to a custom form, it s...

I'm adding a "Sign In with Google" federated login button to my site. For desktop I'm using the popup window which works great like this: gapi.auth2.init(); gapi.auth2.getAuthInstance().signIn().t...

I'm new to Federated Identity Management. I'm trying to understand the differences between the authentication protocols and concepts. I understood the difference/relationship between OpenID and OA...

I have built an authentication system and would like to make it a federated authentication and authorization system (SSO), like Google+ or Facebook. Upon researching, I discovered that OpenID Conne...

I would like my app to allow users with a Facebook, Google, Amazon... etc... accounts to be able to login to my app. This works fine through AWS Cognito. However, is there a way for the app to cre...

I am working on an app which will use two authentication providers: Facebook Cognito User Pool With the former, I have no issues, everything works as intended. However, while setting up the aut...

I want to use Cognito Federated Entity (allowing signin through Google etc), to allow access to API Gateway for a web javascript application. I managed to get the Cognito's sessionToken through sig...

We have multiple services in our environment. There are scenarios where we want the user to auto-login/silently login to one or more participating services without being challenged by the Identity...

I got this exception when I try get my home page on ASP.NET MVC application. [CryptographicException: Error occurred during a cryptographic operation.] System.Web.Security.Cryptography.Homoge...