Creating a federated identity pool

Managing users is a requirement of virtually every system. Over a long career, I can certainly attest to creating identity management functionality over and over again. Fortunately, we can now get this functionality as a service from many providers, including our cloud providers. And because there are so many options available, we need a federated solution that delegates to many other identity management systems while presenting a single, unified model to our cloud-native system. In this recipe, we will show how to create an AWS Cognito user pool, which we will then use in other recipes to secure our services.

How to do it...

1. Create the project from the following template:

$ sls create...