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Tanmay Deshpande
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Tanmay Deshpande

Tanmay Deshpande is a Hadoop and big data evangelist. He currently works with Schlumberger as a Big Data Architect in Pune, India. He has interest in a wide range of technologies, such as Hadoop, Hive, Pig, NoSQL databases, Mahout, Sqoop, Java, cloud computing, and so on. He has vast experience in application development in various domains, such as oil and gas, finance, telecom, manufacturing, security, and retail. He enjoys solving machine-learning problems and spends his time reading anything that he can get his hands on. He has great interest in open source technologies and has been promoting them through his talks. Before Schlumberger, he worked with Symantec, Lumiata, and Infosys. Through his innovative thinking and dynamic leadership, he has successfully completed various projects. He regularly blogs on his website http://hadooptutorials.co.in. You can connect with him on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/deshpandetanmay/. He has also authored Mastering DynamoDB, published in August 2014, DynamoDB Cookbook, published in September 2015, Hadoop Real World Solutions Cookbook-Second Edition, published in March 2016, Hadoop: Data Processing and Modelling, published in August, 2016, and Hadoop Blueprints, published in September 2016, all by Packt Publishing.
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Creating an identity pool using AWS Cognito


In the previous recipe, we created DynamoDB tables based on the need. Now, it's time to think of securely accessing DynamoDB from the Android app. Unlike what we did for web apps, here we cannot distribute the AWS secret key and access key with each app, as we need to distribute the app to a number of users. If we embed the access and secret keys in the Android application package (APK), then it will make our AWS environment vulnerable.

So, in order to solve this problem, AWS has launched a service called AWS Cognito, which is a great tool to provide limited/required access to app users. In this recipe, we are going to see how to use Cognito to create an identity pool. You can read about AWS Cognito at https://aws.amazon.com/cognito/.

Getting ready

To get started with this recipe, you need to know how to use the AWS console.

How to do it…

Let's create an identity pool using AWS Cognito:

  1. Log in to the AWS web console and navigate to Cognito at https...

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Tanmay Deshpande

Tanmay Deshpande is a Hadoop and big data evangelist. He currently works with Schlumberger as a Big Data Architect in Pune, India. He has interest in a wide range of technologies, such as Hadoop, Hive, Pig, NoSQL databases, Mahout, Sqoop, Java, cloud computing, and so on. He has vast experience in application development in various domains, such as oil and gas, finance, telecom, manufacturing, security, and retail. He enjoys solving machine-learning problems and spends his time reading anything that he can get his hands on. He has great interest in open source technologies and has been promoting them through his talks. Before Schlumberger, he worked with Symantec, Lumiata, and Infosys. Through his innovative thinking and dynamic leadership, he has successfully completed various projects. He regularly blogs on his website http://hadooptutorials.co.in. You can connect with him on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/deshpandetanmay/. He has also authored Mastering DynamoDB, published in August 2014, DynamoDB Cookbook, published in September 2015, Hadoop Real World Solutions Cookbook-Second Edition, published in March 2016, Hadoop: Data Processing and Modelling, published in August, 2016, and Hadoop Blueprints, published in September 2016, all by Packt Publishing.
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