Category: Security, Identity, & Compliance

APIs are the building blocks of modern software, and protecting them is more crucial than ever. As your application gets more complex and interconnected, ensuring that only authorized users can access specific resources becomes important. Amazon Cognito is an identity platform for web and mobile applications. It’s a user directory, an authentication server, and an […]

Amazon Verified Permissions is a managed authorization service for custom applications. You can use Verified Permissions to define fine-grained authorization policies based on principals, resources, roles, and attributes. Verified Permissions enables developers to build secure applications faster by externalizing authorization and centralizing policy management and administration. In this blog post, I use Verified Permissions to […]

Introduction Welcome to the second post in the Bob’s Used Books blog post series. In the first post I discussed how to get started with Bob’s Used Books and described the different debug and deployment modes you can use to test and run the application. In this post I will dive into the architecture of […]

Introduction The best sample applications are simple to understand, but have enough complexity to demonstrate real-world usage. Our new open-source .NET sample application, Bob’s Used Books, provides the .NET community with a simple but real-world .NET application that leverages multiple AWS frameworks and services. Bob’s Used Books is a simple eCommerce application that sells fictional […]