Amazon Cognito Is Now Available In The AWS Canada (Central) Region

Posted on: Jan 22, 2019

Amazon Cognito is now available in the AWS Canada (Central) Region. Amazon Cognito is the easiest way to add authentication, authorization, and user management to your web and mobile apps. Amazon Cognito scales to millions of users and supports sign-in with social identity providers, such as Facebook, Google, and Amazon, and enterprise identity providers via SAML 2.0.

To get started, create a Cognito User Pool in the AWS Management console or explore the Amazon Cognito developer guide.  

With the addition of this region, Cognito is now available in 13 AWS Regions globally: US East (N. Virgina), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Canada (Central), China (Beijing), EU (Ireland), EU (London), and EU (Frankfurt).