Multi-Tenant Auth with Cognito and PostgreSQL Row-Level Security (Part 2)
The article discusses a method for implementing multi-tenant authentication using AWS Cognito and PostgreSQL Row-Level Security. It highlights the importance of preventing data leaks in multi-tenant applications and how a specific Postgres session variable can help enforce tenant isolation. The piece outlines the full trust chain involved in processing authenticated API requests to ensure data security.
- ▪The article is part of a series on building a multi-tenant AI platform on AWS.
- ▪It emphasizes the risk of data leaks in multi-tenant SaaS applications and how they can occur without exceptions being thrown.
- ▪The approach discussed uses a Postgres session variable to automatically enforce tenant isolation at the database level.
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