Wednesday, 19 April 2017

R Shiny authentication using AWS Cognito

I'm using R Studio Server in combination with R Shiny, running on an Ubuntu 16.04. Everything works fine. I want to secure the R Shiny dashboards (username+pw), and I'm thinking about building a small webpage that communicates with AWS Cognito to verify the users.

I can't find any documentation about this combination (Shiny + Cognito), but do find quite some documentation about both R Shiny Authentication (using NGINX + Auth0) and the use of Cognito (for example in combination with NodeJS).

Is a combination of Shiny and Cognito (with for example PHP or Node JS) logical and secure? What would be the best way to go: a simple web page with some PHP, or a Node JS application, with Shiny incorporated in it?

I realize this question is rather broad, but since I'm sure I'm not the only one walking around with this questions, I still ask so everyone can profit from possible solutions.



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