Front-End Web & Mobile
Author: Stefano Buliani
Stefano is a serverless specialist solutions architect at AWS. Stefano helps AWS customers develop, deploy, and scale their serverless applications. Stefano also maintains a number of open source projects such as Serverless Java Container, Lambda Go API, and Serverless SAM.
Sync store access and simplified credentials provider
Today we released a new feature for Amazon Cognito that gives developers, utilizing their credentials, full API access to the sync store to read and write user profile data. This feature helps you access and modify user profiles from your backend infrastructure. For example, game developers can use this feature to distribute prizes to players […]
Concrete Software uses Amazon Cognito for NHL Hockey Target Smash
“Using Amazon Cognito, we can build cross-platform games faster without managing backend infrastructure. Amazon Cognito sync helps us save game data to the cloud and synchronize it across devices.” – Keith Pichelman, CEO, Concrete Software About Concrete Software Concrete Software has designed and published games for mobile platforms, including iOS, Android, BlackBerry and Microsoft Windows, […]
Push synchronization, JavaScript sync and eu-west-1 for Amazon Cognito
Today, we are excited to announce the launch of push synchronization, a new feature in Amazon Cognito that enables your app to receive a silent push notification whenever its data stored in the cloud changes, a new SDK for JavaScript in developer preview that helps you save data in the cloud, cache it on the […]
Amazon Cognito Adds Industry Standard Support with OpenID Connect
We are excited to announce that we’re enhancing Amazon Cognito to support OpenID Connect (OIDC), an open standard for identity authentication. You can now utilize Amazon Cognito to generate unique identifiers and receive temporary AWS credentials with any OIDC-compatible provider. This new feature greatly expands the universe of identity providers you can leverage with Amazon […]
Use Amazon Cognito in your website for simple AWS authentication
Warning (Nov 2017): The content below is outdated. Updated content is forthcoming. Amazon Cognito helps you create unique identifiers for your end users that are kept consistent across devices and platforms. Cognito also delivers temporary, limited-privilege credentials to your application to access AWS resources. Over the past few weeks, the team has been working hard […]