aws-auth
awsAdd secure sign-up, login, federation, and API access.
application authentication
What it does
Adds application-level authentication and authorization to web and mobile apps using Amazon Cognito and Amplify client libraries.
When to use it
Use when adding or troubleshooting login, sign-up, Cognito pools, federation, tokens, MFA, or protected API routes.
How to use it
Give it an authentication task in an existing app; it configures the Cognito resources and wires the client authentication into the project.
What you provide
- An existing project
Uses
Access · 5
This skill
Amazon Cognito
Configures Amazon Cognito authentication
Amazon API Gateway
Configures API Gateway authorizers
Application Load Balancer
Adds Cognito login to ALB
Amazon Cognito configuration
Reads existing Cognito configuration
Good to know
- sends a credential to a server: user access token
What you need · 2
A paid feature plan is required when customizing access-token claims with pre-token-generation triggers.
The Essentials or Plus feature plan is required when adding passkey authentication.
About this skill
- Visibility
- Public
- Repository
- aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws
- Created
- Oct 8, 2026
- Updated
- Oct 8, 2026
- Files
- 10