Role-Based Access Control in AWS Amplify

Securing web applications requires a reliable way to verify who your users are and what they are allowed to do. Managing user permissions and roles is essential for protecting sensitive data and ensuring a smooth user experience. This course guides you through the process of implementing role-based access control (RBAC) using AWS Amplify. You will learn how to extract and verify user-specific roles directly from secure access tokens. What you will learn: Understand the fundamentals of authentication, authorization, and role-based access control; Configure AWS Amplify to manage user groups and assign specific roles; Retrieve and decode JSON Web Tokens (JWT) to access user claims; Check user-specific roles on the client side to conditionally render application features; Apply modern security best practices to protect your application routes. The course begins with foundational concepts of identity management and token-based authentication before moving into practical implementation steps for reading and validating roles in your application code. This course is designed for beginner to intermediate web developers who want to secure their applications using AWS Amplify; no prior cloud security experience is required. Begin building secure, role-aware applications today.