Dual-token authentication for Nakama game servers with Amazon Cognito on AWS | Amazon Web Services

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Introduces a dual-token authentication pattern for Nakama game servers using Amazon Cognito. Implements a Go runtime hook to validate Cognito JWTs and exchange them for Nakama session tokens. Details the architecture for routing HTTP and WebSocket traffic through Amazon CloudFront, AWS WAF, ALB, and NLB, with Nakama deployed on Amazon ECS/Fargate. Covers Cognito User Pool configuration for SRP-based authentication and JWKS caching with thundering herd protection.