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User Impersonation in AWS Cognito

Thomas Schoffelen
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4 min readMar 17, 2021

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I’ve been using AWS Cognito for quite a few recent projects. It makes a lot of sense to use when you’re building serverless applications on AWS Lambda, just because it’s right there and part of the ecosystem.

I also definitely don’t want to ever build my own authentication systems anymore. Been there, done that, introduced security issues, promised myself to never do it…

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Thomas Schoffelen
CodeX
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