diff --git a/docs/07-row_level_auth.ipynb b/docs/07-row_level_auth.ipynb
index 0bfa5a4..e9a2a48 100644
--- a/docs/07-row_level_auth.ipynb
+++ b/docs/07-row_level_auth.ipynb
@@ -25,8 +25,11 @@
     "proxy applies it to every relevant request — without touching stac-fastapi-pgstac at all.\n",
     "\n",
     "<div class=\"alert alert-block alert-warning\">\n",
-    "<b>Note:</b> This chapter needs the local docker-compose auth stack. It will not run against\n",
-    "the hosted workshop deployment.\n",
+    "<b>Which stack you need.</b> Sections 7.4&nbsp;&ndash;&nbsp;7.5.1 run against\n",
+    "<i>either</i> the local docker-compose stack or the hosted deployment &mdash; see\n",
+    "&sect;7.3.3 for the deployed variant. Section&nbsp;7.6 onward needs docker-compose,\n",
+    "because it creates and deletes records and the deployed STAC API has the transaction\n",
+    "extension disabled on purpose.\n",
     "</div>"
    ]
   },
@@ -218,7 +221,40 @@
     "time: `private-alice-demo` and `private-bob-demo`. To try it, open the proxy's Swagger UI\n",
     "at `https://{project}-protected-stac.eoapi.dev/api.html`, click **Authorize**, sign in as\n",
     "`alice`, and call `GET /collections`: `private-alice-demo` is listed and\n",
-    "`private-bob-demo` is not. Signed out, neither appears."
+    "`private-bob-demo` is not. Signed out, neither appears.\n",
+    "\n",
+    "### Running the read-side against the deployment\n",
+    "\n",
+    "Sections 7.4 to 7.5.1 only read, so they work against the deployed proxy too. Swap the\n",
+    "setup cell in 7.4 for this, using the same workshop token `workshop_setup.setup()` asks\n",
+    "for:\n",
+    "\n",
+    "```python\n",
+    "from stac_auth import auth_headers, deployed_auth, get_cognito_token\n",
+    "\n",
+    "cfg = deployed_auth(workshop_token)\n",
+    "stac_api_endpoint = cfg[\"stac_endpoint\"]\n",
+    "\n",
+    "def token_for(user):\n",
+    "    return get_cognito_token(user, cfg[\"password\"], cfg[\"client_id\"], cfg[\"region\"])\n",
+    "\n",
+    "alice, bob, anonymous = auth_headers(token_for(\"alice\")), auth_headers(token_for(\"bob\")), {}\n",
+    "```\n",
+    "\n",
+    "Then use the seeded collections in place of the ones 7.4 creates:\n",
+    "\n",
+    "```python\n",
+    "public_id = \"eoapi-workshop-sentinel-2-c1-l2a\"\n",
+    "alice_id, bob_id = \"private-alice-demo\", \"private-bob-demo\"\n",
+    "```\n",
+    "\n",
+    "and skip the item cells, since the seeded collections have no items. 7.5 and 7.5.1 then\n",
+    "run unchanged, and you stop before 7.6.\n",
+    "\n",
+    "Two things this shows that the local stack does not. The tokens are signed by a real\n",
+    "identity provider rather than a mock, and they carry no `stac/write` scope &mdash; so even\n",
+    "the write-rejection in 7.6 would fail for the *wrong* reason (route-level auth, not\n",
+    "row-level), which is precisely why that section stays local."
    ]
   },
   {
diff --git a/docs/stac_auth.py b/docs/stac_auth.py
index 3d360c7..5664851 100644
--- a/docs/stac_auth.py
+++ b/docs/stac_auth.py
@@ -1,7 +1,12 @@
 """
-Helpers for authenticated STAC transaction requests in the local docker-compose stack.
+Helpers for authenticated STAC requests against the workshop's auth stack.
 
-Requires MOCK_OIDC_ENDPOINT and STAC_API_ENDPOINT (stac-auth-proxy).
+The local docker-compose stack is the default: `get_mock_oidc_token` needs
+MOCK_OIDC_ENDPOINT and STAC_API_ENDPOINT (stac-auth-proxy).
+
+`deployed_auth` and `get_cognito_token` are the hosted equivalents, for running the
+read-side of chapter 7 against the deployed proxy without docker. They cannot do writes:
+the deployed STAC API has the transaction extension disabled on purpose.
 """
 
 from __future__ import annotations
@@ -78,3 +83,85 @@ def get_mock_oidc_token(
 
 def auth_headers(token: str) -> dict[str, str]:
     return {"Authorization": f"Bearer {token}"}
+
+
+def deployed_auth(
+    workshop_token: str,
+    config_url: str | None = None,
+    timeout: float = 20.0,
+) -> dict[str, str]:
+    """Look up the deployed proxy endpoint and Cognito details.
+
+    Args:
+        workshop_token: the bearer token for the config endpoint, the same one
+            `workshop_setup.setup()` asks for.
+
+    Returns a dict with `stac_endpoint`, `client_id`, `region` and `password`.
+    """
+    config_url = config_url or os.getenv(
+        "CONFIG_API_ENDPOINT", "https://workshop-config.eoapi.dev"
+    )
+    response = httpx.get(
+        config_url,
+        headers=auth_headers(workshop_token),
+        timeout=timeout,
+    )
+    response.raise_for_status()
+    config = response.json()
+
+    discovery = config.get("oidc_discovery_url", "")
+    # https://cognito-idp.<region>.amazonaws.com/<pool>/.well-known/...
+    region = discovery.split("://", 1)[-1].split(".")[1] if discovery else ""
+
+    missing = [
+        key
+        for key, value in {
+            "stac_auth_proxy_endpoint": config.get("stac_auth_proxy_endpoint"),
+            "oidc_client_id": config.get("oidc_client_id"),
+        }.items()
+        if not value
+    ]
+    if missing:
+        raise RuntimeError(
+            f"The config endpoint did not return {missing}. "
+            "The deployment may predate the Cognito auth proxy."
+        )
+
+    return {
+        "stac_endpoint": config["stac_auth_proxy_endpoint"],
+        "client_id": config["oidc_client_id"],
+        "region": region,
+        "password": config.get("workshop_user_password", ""),
+    }
+
+
+def get_cognito_token(
+    username: str,
+    password: str,
+    client_id: str,
+    region: str,
+    timeout: float = 20.0,
+) -> str:
+    """Return a Cognito access token for `username`, without a browser redirect.
+
+    Uses `USER_PASSWORD_AUTH`, which the workshop's app client enables for exactly this
+    reason. The resulting token carries the `username` claim the row-level filter reads,
+    but *not* the `stac/write` scope, so it can read the catalog and never write to it.
+    """
+    response = httpx.post(
+        f"https://cognito-idp.{region}.amazonaws.com/",
+        headers={
+            "Content-Type": "application/x-amz-json-1.1",
+            "X-Amz-Target": "AWSCognitoIdentityProviderService.InitiateAuth",
+        },
+        json={
+            "AuthFlow": "USER_PASSWORD_AUTH",
+            "ClientId": client_id,
+            "AuthParameters": {"USERNAME": username, "PASSWORD": password},
+        },
+        timeout=timeout,
+    )
+    if response.status_code != 200:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"Cognito rejected the sign-in: {response.text}")
+
+    return response.json()["AuthenticationResult"]["AccessToken"]
diff --git a/infrastructure/app.py b/infrastructure/app.py
index 29f9e0a..bfaadf5 100644
--- a/infrastructure/app.py
+++ b/infrastructure/app.py
@@ -378,6 +378,19 @@ def __init__(
                     "http://localhost:8086",
                 ],
             ),
+            # Lets a notebook sign in as alice or bob without a browser redirect, so
+            # chapter 7's read-side demo can run against this deployment and not only
+            # against docker-compose.
+            #
+            # This does not weaken the write protection. Cognito issues
+            # USER_PASSWORD_AUTH tokens with the scope `aws.cognito.signin.user.admin`
+            # and never the custom `stac/*` scopes, so such a token still fails the
+            # scope check in PRIVATE_ENDPOINTS. It carries `username`, which is all the
+            # row-level filter reads.
+            #
+            # `user_srp` is kept because naming any flow replaces Cognito's implicit
+            # defaults, and dropping SRP would be an unintended narrowing.
+            auth_flows=aws_cognito.AuthFlow(user_password=True, user_srp=True),
         )
 
         # Two workshop identities sharing one password. Cognito creates users in