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Category: Amazon Cognito
Selecting and migrating a Facebook API version for Amazon Cognito
On May 1, 2020, Facebook will remove version 2.12 of the Facebook Graph API. This change impacts Amazon Cognito customers who are using version 2.12 of the Facebook Graph API in their identity federation configuration. In this post, I explain how to migrate your Amazon Cognito configuration to use the latest version of the Facebook […]
How to set case sensitivity in the Amazon Cognito console
AWS recently updated how Amazon Cognito user pools are created so that new user pools are case insensitive by default. An Amazon Cognito user pool is a user directory that helps you manage end-user identities. With this new feature, the native user name, email alias, and preferred user name alias are marked as case insensitive […]
How to set up Sign in with Apple for Amazon Cognito
January 7, 2020: Based on customer feedback, we revised the wording of a step in a procedure to improve clarity. Amazon Cognito user pools enables you to add user sign-in and sign-up to your mobile and web applications using a secure and scalable user directory. With Amazon Cognito user pools, your end users can sign […]
How to Use New Advanced Security Features for Amazon Cognito User Pools
Amazon Cognito lets you easily add user sign-up, sign-in, and access control to your mobile and web apps. You can use fully managed user directories, called Amazon Cognito user pools, to create accounts for your users, allow them to sign in, and update their profiles. Your users also can sign in by using external identity […]
Amazon Cognito User Pools Now Integrates with Amazon Pinpoint to Add Analytics for User Pools
Amazon Cognito User Pools now integrates with Amazon Pinpoint to provide analytics for user pools and to enrich the user data for Amazon Pinpoint campaigns. Amazon Cognito User Pools provides user directories that make it easy to add sign-up and sign-in to your mobile or web application. Amazon Pinpoint provides analytics and targeted campaigns to drive […]
Amazon Cognito Your User Pools is Now Generally Available
Amazon Cognito makes it easy for developers to add sign-up, sign-in, and enhanced security functionality to mobile and web apps. With Amazon Cognito Your User Pools, you get a simple, fully managed service for creating and maintaining your own user directory that can scale to hundreds of millions of users. With today’s launch, user pools adds: […]
Amazon Cognito Now Provides Sign-Up and Sign-In Functionality for Your Apps (Beta)
Today, Amazon Cognito launched the beta of a new feature that makes it easy for developers to add sign-up and sign-in functionality to mobile and web apps. With this new feature, you get a simple, fully managed service you can use to create and maintain your user pool that can scale to hundreds of millions […]
Building an App Using Amazon Cognito and an OpenID Connect Identity Provider
January 11, 2023: This blog post has been updated to reflect the correct OAuth 2.0 endpoint for the Identity Provider (IdP) used and to use an updated version of the AWS SDK for JavaScript. This post has also been refreshed with updated steps to configure an Amazon Cognito Identity Pool and creating a Connected App […]
How Does Amazon Cognito Relate to Existing Web Identity Federation?
As you might have seen, AWS recently released Amazon Cognito, a user identity and data synchronization service that helps you securely manage and synchronize app data for your users across their mobile devices. If you develop mobile apps that call AWS services, you definitely want to check out Amazon Cognito. What is Amazon Cognito? Amazon […]