Amazon Cognito Is Now Available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region

Posted on: May 13, 2020

Amazon Cognito is now available in AWS GovCloud (US-West). AWS GovCloud (US) Regions are isolated AWS Regions designed to host sensitive data and regulated workloads in the cloud, assisting customers who have United States federal, state, or local government compliance requirements.

Amazon Cognito lets you add user sign-up, sign-in, and access control to your web and mobile apps. Amazon Cognito scales to millions of users and supports sign-in with social identity providers, such as Apple, Facebook, Google, and Amazon, and enterprise identity providers via SAML 2.0 and OIDC.

With the addition of this region, Cognito is now available in 14 AWS Regions globally. For a list of regions where Amazon Cognito is available, see the AWS Region table. To learn more about Amazon Cognito, visit the product documentation page. To get started, visit the Amazon Cognito home page.