Category: Amazon Cognito

September 8, 2023: It’s important to know that if you activate user sign-up in your user pool, anyone on the internet can sign up for an account and sign in to your apps. Don’t enable self-registration in your user pool unless you want to open your app to allow users to sign up. Amazon Cognito […]

September 8, 2023: It’s important to know that if you activate user sign-up in your user pool, anyone on the internet can sign up for an account and sign in to your apps. Don’t enable self-registration in your user pool unless you want to open your app to allow users to sign up. On May […]

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 […]

September 8, 2023: It’s important to know that if you activate user sign-up in your user pool, anyone on the internet can sign up for an account and sign in to your apps. Don’t enable self-registration in your user pool unless you want to open your app to allow users to sign up. January 7, […]

September 8, 2023: It’s important to know that if you activate user sign-up in your user pool, anyone on the internet can sign up for an account and sign in to your apps. Don’t enable self-registration in your user pool unless you want to open your app to allow users to sign up. Amazon Cognito […]

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 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: […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]