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How to monitor, optimize, and secure Amazon Cognito machine-to-machine authorization
- Amazon Cognito is a CIAM service that supports managing user authentication and authorization to enable secure access to APIs and workloads.
- It offers support for OAuth 2.0 client credentials grants used for M2M authorization.
- It is suggested to locally cache and reuse access tokens, and customize the valid token period to align with security requirements.
- M2M use cases can be combined with a REST API proxy integration using Amazon API Gateway enables to cache token responses and optimize request and response of access tokens.
- Monitoring usage and costs can be done using the Security tab of the Cost and Usage Dashboards Operations Solution.
- Token caching from Amazon API Gateway can be used to reduce token requests and improve latency.
- It's important to use AWS Secrets Manager to retrieve credentials for authentication only at runtime rather than hard-code credentials into workloads and applications.
- It's suggested to use AWS WAF to protect user pool endpoints from unwanted HTTP web requests.
- Several security best practices and considerations were discussed, such as using AWS WAF, always verifying tokens, defining scopes at the app client level.
- API cache encryption can be enabled to meet security requirements.
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