14 articles tagged API Gateways.
Earlier this year, I was working on a project that was using AWS Cognito (as the identity stack) and the AWS API Gateway (as the front-door to all of the API calls). AWS Cognito is a relatively new player in the identity space. It doesn’t support the full OAuth2 or OpenID Connect specs, but, does…
Read article: OpenID Connect Authorization Code Flow with AWS CognitoAt some point in the finite past, I had the good fortune to become involved in a project that was essentially completely greenfield. An unnamed company, in an unnamed industry decided to try something new. In a page right out of “The Innovator’s dilemma”, they spun up a new, separate organization,…
Read article: The Many Ways of Approaching Identity ArchitectureThe OpenID Connect (OIDC) family of specs supports logout (from a single application) and global (or single) logout (from all applications that the user has logged into through the OpenID Provider, OP), but these features are optional or in draft status (as of Q2, 2017). So, these spec features may…
Read article: OpenID Connect LogoutThe power of end-to-end user security context with APIs
Read article: Identity Propagation in an API Gateway Architecture
