Thursday, May 30, 2013

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Amazon Web Services authorized the use of third-party authentication system

Company Amazon Web Services announced on the eve of a new set of API-functions with which developers can use the sign-in systems from vendors such as Facebook, Google or Amazon for most of their cloud applications hosted in the cloud, AWS .




A new feature called Amazon Web Identity Federation, and sold it all over her firm service AWS Security Token Service API. The company said that the decision simplifies application development and allows you to organize the web-based platform with authentication without the need to create your own server-side code and databases. In addition, Google, Facebook and Amazon Web Services also recently announced integrated system Login with Amazon (free service that allows third-party services and websites use authorization system, operating under the framework Amazon.com). new API, called AssumeRoleWithWebIdentity, temporarily requested from security vendors requisites users to open them of some initially closed resources.


If the authentication service sends a positive response, then access is granted. Web-based applications, including new features - it's not just the standard hosting system, but the table DynamoDB, requests Simple Queue Service, as well as storage facilities for Simple Storage Service.
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