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Creating a Cognito identity pool

Creating a Cognito identity pool - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

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Creating a Cognito identity pool

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- [Instructor] Now that we have a user pool in place, let's go ahead and create a Cognito identity pool. Starting from the screen that verifies my user pool has been created, I go ahead and click the Identity pools link in the left hand nav. To get started, I click Create Identity pool. This brings me through the Identity pool wizard. The first thing I get to do is specify the trust level. Specifically, am I creating a pool for authenticated access, guest access, or both? While it's possible to do both, it's more likely that you would want guests to have a different level of access than authenticated users. Clicking the Guest access checkbox pops up a warning to help you ensure that you know what you're doing. Specifically, that you want unauthenticated users to be able to access a subset of resources. In this case, I want to configure an identity pool for authenticated access. Note the flexibility I have in terms of specifying identity sources. While I can certainly use a Cognito…

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