Security Basics

Question 1

Shared Responsibility Environment

Answer 1

User Responsibility vs AWS responsibility

Question 2

Amazon Cognito

Answer 2

create unique identities for users;
authenticate identities with identity providers, or your own auth process;
supports unauthenticated identities;
save mobile user data
user credentials obtained to synchronized data with Cognito Sync

Question 3

IAM Role Scenario

Answer 3

User logs in to app
We generate temporary AWS credentials
The temporary credentials are associated with a specific IAM role
The IAM role gives access to DynamoDB to read/write progress