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Category: Amazon Cognito

Simplify Login with Application Load Balancer Built-in Authentication

Today I’m excited to announce built-in authentication support in Application Load Balancers (ALB). ALB can now securely authenticate users as they access applications, letting developers eliminate the code they have to write to support authentication and offload the responsibility of authentication from the backend. The team built a great live example where you can try […]

AWS Online Tech Talks – September 2017

As a school supply aficionado, the month of September has always held a special place in my heart. Nothing sets the tone for success like getting a killer deal on pens and a crisp college ruled notebook. Even if back to school shopping trips have secured a seat in your distant memory, this is still […]

Launch – Amazon Cognito User Pools General Availability: App Integration and Federation

Recently I was reading articles on Forbes.com, as well as, some other tech-focused websites around mobile user experience, engagement, and development. Almost every article, it mentions that the success of a mobile app development project is dependent upon the delivery of a well-designed user onboarding experience and an engaging mobile interface. An Inc.com article states […]

New – Amazon Cognito Groups and Fine-Grained Role-Based Access Control

One of the challenges in building applications has been around user authentication and management.  Let’s face it, not many developers want to build yet another user identification and authentication system for their application nor would they want to cause a user to create yet another account unless needed.  Amazon Cognito makes it simpler for developers […]

New – Your User Pools for Amazon Cognito

Amazon Cognito makes it easy for mobile and web apps to easily add authentication, user management, and data synchronization without having to write backend code or manage any infrastructure. In the last year we have added some powerful new features to Cognito including AWS CloudTrail support, the use of Twitter and Digits as login providers, […]

New – Amazon Cognito Streams

Amazon Cognito makes it easy for you to save user data such as app preferences in the AWS Cloud without writing any backend logic or managing any infrastructure. You can focus on creating a great app instead of worrying about creating server-side code to handle identity management, network state, storage, and sync. Today we are […]