# AWS Cognito with OpenID - Step by Step **URL:** \ **Category:** How do I?\ **Created:** [May 1, 2024, 2:13am UTC](https://community.weweb.io/t/aws-cognito-with-openid-step-by-step/8378 "2024-05-01T02:13:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![JulianW](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/85e7bf/32.png) [@JulianW](https://community.weweb.io/u/JulianW)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2024, 2:13am UTC](https://community.weweb.io/t/aws-cognito-with-openid-step-by-step/8378/1 "2024-05-01T02:13:53Z")
I’m trying to make the connection between WeWeb and Cognito happen. It can’t do token based authentication, since this doesn’t seem to be supported by Cognito. So OIDC is the way to go. Has anyone succesfully set this up? I’d like to see some step by step instructions ---
**Author:** ![Doc](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.weweb.io/doc/32/8594_2.png) [@Doc](https://community.weweb.io/u/Doc)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2024, 4:02pm UTC](https://community.weweb.io/t/aws-cognito-with-openid-step-by-step/8378/2 "2024-05-03T16:02:34Z")
Great question! It sounds you may already be familiar with how OpenID works but just in case, I’m [sharing this with you](https://docs.weweb.io/plugins/auth-systems/open-id.html). Regarding the step by step to make it work with Cognito, I’m not sure. Perhaps [this documentation](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cognito/latest/developerguide/cognito-user-identity-pools.html) or this [thread](https://www.reddit.com/r/nocode/comments/17my2eb/which_platforms_can_auth_using_aws_cognito/?rdt=40650) (regarding token-based auth on WeWeb) can help you? Hope that helps 😃 ---
**Author:** ![JulianW](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/85e7bf/32.png) [@JulianW](https://community.weweb.io/u/JulianW)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2024, 4:42pm UTC](https://community.weweb.io/t/aws-cognito-with-openid-step-by-step/8378/3 "2024-05-03T16:42:28Z")
Unfortunately not. Are you able to provide documentation for AWS Cognito?