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Adding user auth to an AWS project

Adding user auth to an AWS project

- [Instructor] Okay, that's one AWS feature down added to our project, we are hosting, great. Now we're going to add the next awesome AWS feature with Amplify, we're going to add authentication to our app. Now, this can take days sometimes in a project if you're doing a custom solution, in the past, even a provided solution was complicated. Now it's going to be a breeze, it's going to be awesome. We're going to use the amplify add auth command from the terminal, and we're going to just answer a couple of questions, it's going to be super easy. And then we're going to push it to the server, which will add this feature to AWS using all the different services necessary to do a great job. And we don't have to basically lift a finger other than tapping. Okay? We do have to lift fingers when we type, but other than that, super easy. And it's going to use Cognito to handle the authentication using again, the user pool…

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