AWS Mobile Blog

Introduction Earlier this week, Amazon SNS released worldwide SMS delivery and made it available in six AWS Regions. Worldwide SMS delivery means that you can now send SMS text messages directly to mobile phone numbers in more than 200 countries. Along with this expansion, SNS also enabled default “opt-in” of recipient phone numbers. This creates […]

Today, we are excited to announce support in Amazon Cognito for Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) 2.0 authentication. SAML 2.0 is an XML-based open standard that is used to transfer authentication and authorization data between parties. Now developers can sign in users through their own SAML identity providers and provide secure access through Amazon Cognito […]

Introduction In April, we launched the Beta version of a new Amazon Cognito feature called Amazon Cognito User Pools. The user pools feature makes it easy for developers to add sign-up and sign-in functionality to web and mobile applications. In this blog post we will walk through how to integrate Amazon Cognito User Pools with […]

Introduction In April, we launched the beta version of a new Amazon Cognito feature called Your User Pools. Among other functionality, the User Pools feature makes it easy for developers to add sign-up and sign-in functionality to web apps. AWS Mobile SDKs for Android, JavaScript, and iOS are available with this beta launch. In this […]

Introduction Last month AWS launched the beta version of  Amazon Cognito User Pools. With this feature, you can easily add sign-up and sign-in functionality to your mobile and web applications. You get a simple to use, fully managed service for creating and maintaining a user directory which can scale to hundreds of millions of users. You […]

Introduction Today, AWS launched the Beta release of a new Amazon Cognito feature, Cognito Identity User Pools, that makes it easy for you to add sign-up and sign-in functionality to your mobile and web apps. This feature provides a simple way to create and maintain your own user directory that can scale to hundreds of […]

Predictive maintenance is one of many appealing use cases for the Internet of Things (IoT). Using sensors to predict the health of a fleet of machines in the field can prevent down time without conducting unnecessary maintenance. Further, predictive maintenance allows for maintenance to be conducted at the most cost effective time. Allowing you to […]

Introduction Earlier this week, AWS IoT released support for customers who need to use their own device certificates signed by their preferred Certificate Authority (CA). This is in addition to the support for AWS IoT generated certificates. The CA certificate is used to sign and issue device certificates, while the device certificates are used to […]

As you may already know, Parse announced it will retire its operations by January 28, 2017. We recently published a step-by-step guide on how to migrate to the Parse Server using AWS Elastic Beanstalk with MongoLab (now mLab). In this blog we cover how to deploy both Parse Server (using Elastic Beanstalk) and a MongoDB instance (with Amazon EC2) […]

As you may already know, Parse announced that it will retire its operations by January 28, 2017. To help customers transition their Parse Core resources to another hosted provider like AWS, Parse open-sourced the Parse Server and published a migration guide. The guide, however, does not have a migration path for Parse Push and suggests […]