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Are you familiar with Firebase's write rules? DynamoDB has something similar with Cognito, but it's _very_ limited.

That's when I figured that I'm not gaining anything by using Cognito.

No, I was not aware of that Firebase functionality as I have never used it. Interesting. Yes, it would be ideal if I could just let another layer do all of the authentication and authorization. That would have worked for the bits of code that use the database. I still would need a way to use the authentication token for things like the Stripe integration.

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