[Technology][AWS][Cognito] — Effortless User Authentication with AWS Cognito and Application Load Balancer

Why AWS Cognito with Application Load Balancer?

AWS Cognito provides a robust and scalable identity management solution that simplifies user authentication, offering features like user pools, multi-factor authentication, and integration with social identity providers (e.g., Google, Facebook). By integrating Cognito with Application Load Balancer (ALB), you can offload authentication tasks directly to the load balancer, which streamlines your application architecture. This integration enhances security by centralizing authentication, reduces complexity by eliminating the need for custom authentication code in your applications, and provides a seamless, scalable solution that grows with your user base. Combining Cognito with ALB helps ensure a secure, efficient, and user-friendly authentication process.

In this guide, we’ll walk through the process of integrating AWS Cognito with Application Load Balancer (ALB) to manage user authentication efficiently. This setup allows you to centralize authentication at the load balancer level, enhancing security and simplifying your application’s architecture. We’ll cover the following key steps:

1. Create an Application Load Balancer and Configure an HTTPS Listener: We’ll set up an…