Securing applications with AWS ALB and OpenId Connect

.blog-border { border: 1px solid #D5D5D5; padding: 10px; border-radius: 3px; } .blog-border.code { background: #f3f3f4; margin-bottom: 15px; } A smart feature of the AWS Application Load Balancer (ALB) is the ability to authenticate a user via OpenId Connect before proxying requests to application servers. This is really useful if you don’t want to modify an application to add user authentication, but want to quickly restrict access, add multi-factor authentication , or enable single sign-on . From start to finish, this should only take about 10-–15 minutes - or possibly even faster if you a