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Amazon Cognito

Implement a secure, scalable, and customized sign-up and sign-in experience in minutes

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Meet Amazon Cognito

Amazon Cognito lets you add user sign-up, sign-in, and access control to your web and mobile applications within minutes. It is a developer-centric, cost-effective service that provides secure, tenant-based identity stores and federation options that can scale to millions of users. Additionally, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity, powered by Amazon Cognito, enables AI agents to securely access AWS resources or third-party tools and services with robust access controls, while streamlining agent development and user experience. Processing more than 100 billion authentications per month, Amazon Cognito provides comprehensive customer identity and access management (CIAM) for both human users and machine identities.

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Benefits of Amazon Cognito

Provides secure and scalable customer identity and access management that is enterprise-grade, cost-effective, and customizable. Supports login with social identity providers and passwordless login using WebAuthn passkeys or SMS and email one-time-passwords. Scale to millions of users with a fully managed, high-performance, and reliable user directory.
Equips developers with low-code, no-code features that improve productivity. Configure customized sign up and sign in experiences that match your brand without custom code. Works with a broad set of developer frameworks, including AWS Amplify, React, Next.js, Angular, Vue, Flutter, Java, .NET, C++, PHP, Python, Golang, Ruby, iOS (Swift) and Android.
Supports role-based access to AWS services, such as Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon S3, and AWS Lambda. Users can be dynamically mapped to different roles to support least privilege access to a service.
Offers advanced security features such as risk-based adaptive authentication, compromised credential monitoring, IP geo-velocity tracking, and security metrics to support your compliance and data residency requirements.

Use cases

Provide your customers with secure, passwordless access and branded customer experiences with the enhanced UI editor.

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Use a variety of multi-tenancy options that provide different levels of policy and tenant isolation for your business.

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Develop modern, secure, microservice-based applications, and more easily connect your application to backend resources and web services.

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Gain secure, role-based access to AWS services, such as Amazon S3, Amazon DynamoDB, and AWS Lambda.

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