Use Lambda@Edge and JSON Web Tokens to Enhance Web Application Security

Amazon Cognito lets you easily add user sign-up and sign-in to your mobile and web applications. In addition, Amazon Cognito supports OAuth 2.0 as an industry standard protocol for authorization, and the sample application in this blog post relies on JSON Web Tokens to authorize access to private content. JSON Web Token (JWT) is a JSON-based open standard for creating access tokens which assert a series of claims as a JSON object. JSON Web Tokens can also be signed using private/public key pairs in order to verify content authenticity and integrity. read more