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Using Amazon Cognito to set AWS credentials

You have to use Amazon Cognito Identity Provider to obtain AWS credentials. Those credentials you can use in your mobile application to access AWS services. You can also set user-specific permissions to access particular AWS services. You don't have to embed personal credentials. Amazon Cognito will be covered in more detail in Chapter 6, User Authentication with AWS Cognito.

So far, we have covered AWS SDK for IoT and AWS Mobile SDK for Android. Let's explore an example for the Transfer Utility to consume Amazon S3 services. Here we will upload a file from a mobile device and download a file to a mobile device. We will use Android Studio, Amazon Cognito, Amazon S3, and Amazon IAM. Please perform ...

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