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Creating a Cognito user pool

Creating a Cognito user pool

- I'm going to give a demonstration of how to create a Cognito user pool, as well as how to create a Cognito authorizer in API Gateway. This particular demo is going to be somewhat lengthy in that there's several steps to create a Cognito user pool. I have already created the lambda function as well as the API Gateway. Now this particular section of the course comes before the lambda and API Gateway section of this course. So I've already deployed the lambda function as well as the API Gateway here, and it is already up and running. I'm not going to explain too much about lambda or API Gateway. We are covering that in a later lesson. Just to understand that what we're going to be doing is we're going to be sending an HTTP request towards an API Gateway that is using a lambda proxy integration in order to return a response to the caller. If I take a look at my API Gateways that are deployed here, I have this authenticated-API API. This API has a deployment stage called default, which…

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