AWS Amazon Cognito - SAML Relying Party Configuration - RSA Ready Implementation Guide
Last Modified: 2026-04-07
This article describes how to integrate AWS Amazon Cognito with RSA Cloud Access Service (CAS) using Relying Party.
Configure CAS
Perform these steps to configure CAS using Relying Party.
Procedure
- Sign in to the RSA Cloud Administration Console.
- Click Authentication Clients > Relying Parties.
- On the My Relying Parties page, click Add a Relying Party.
- On the Relying Party Catalog page, click Add for Service Provider SAML.
- On the Basic Information page, enter the name for the application in the Name field.
- Click Next Step.
- On the Authentication page, select RSA manages all authentication.
- In the 2.0 Access Policy for Authentication drop-down list, select a policy that was previously configured, and then select Next Step.
- Under Data Input Method, choose Import Metadata.
- Click Choose File and import the metadata downloaded from AWS Amazon Cognito to populate the ACS URL and Service Provider Entity ID.
- Under the Message Protection section, choose IdP signs entire SAML response.
- Scroll down to the User Identity section and select the following values:
- Identifier Type: unspecified
- Property: mail
- Click Save and Finish.
- Click Publish Changes and wait for the operation to be completed.
- Under My Relying Parties, navigate to the newly created relying party.
- In the Edit drop-down list, choose Metadata.
Configure AWS Amazon Cognito
Perform these steps to configure AWS Amazon Cognito Security Intelligence Platform (SIP).
Procedure
- Log in to the AWS Amazon Cognito tenant with an administrator account.
- In the left pane, navigate to Identity Pools and click Create Identity pool.
- Under Configured Identity Pool trust, perform the following steps.
- Select the Authenticated access checkbox.
- Select the SAML checkbox and click Next.
- Under Configure permissions, perform the following steps:
- In the IAM role section, choose Create a new IAM role.
- In the IAM role name section, provide the IAM role name as shown in the following image.
- In the Connect Identity Providers SAML section, click Create new provider.
- In the Provider type section, choose SAML.
- Click Choose file to import the metadata downloaded from CAS.
- Click Add provider to create the SAML identity provider.
- In the Connect identity providers section, provide the following details:
- In the SAML identity provider section, select the RSASSOCoginito identity.
- In the Role Settings section, choose Use default authenticated role.
- In the Claim mapping section, choose Inactive.
- Under Configure properties, provide the Identity pool name as shown in the following image.
- Select the Active basic flow (Basic authentication) checkbox and click Next to review and create the identity pool.
- Review the identity pool and click Create identity pool to complete the identity pool creation.
- In the Amazon Cognito console, under App clients, choose your user pool.
- In the navigation pane, under Applications, choose App clients > My web app.
- On the App clients and analytics page, navigate to the Login pages section.
- Under the Managed login pages configuration section, choose Edit.
- In the Identity providers drop-down list, select Cognito user pool.
- In the OAuth 2.0 grant types section, select Implicit grant.
- In the OpenID Connect scopes section, select Email and OpenID.
- Click Save changes to complete the settings.
The configuration is complete.
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