# Strategies for implementing user authentication in serverless applications

DevFeed: [Strategies for implementing user authentication in serverless applications](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/strategies-for-implementing-user-authentication-in-serverless-applications-14443.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.serverless.com/blog/strategies-implementing-user-authentication-serverless-applications>)

Author: Jeremy Coffield

Published: 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Serverless Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/serverless-blog.md>)

Topics: [Authentication](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/authentication.md>), [Serverless](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/serverless.md>), [JSON Web Tokens](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/jwt.md>)

Tags: [authentication](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/authentication.md>), [aws](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/aws.md>), [aws-lambda](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/aws-lambda.md>), [cloud-computing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud-computing.md>), [engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering.md>), [faas](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/faas.md>), [function-as-a-service](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/function-as-a-service.md>), [infrastructure-as-code](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/infrastructure-as-code.md>), [jwt](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/jwt.md>), [lambda](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/lambda.md>), [serverless](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/serverless.md>), [serverless-architecture](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/serverless-architecture.md>), [serverless-framework](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/serverless-framework.md>), [token](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/token.md>)

## AI overview

A tutorial on implementing user authentication in serverless applications, covering session and JWT-based user information storage, token validity with Lambda Custom Authorizers, and user management.

## Source excerpt

Implementing user authentication in serverless applications: storing user info with sessions & JWT, token validity with Lambda Custom Authorizers, user management & more.