Getting started with Amazon Cognito

You can quickly create your own directory to sign up and sign in users, and to store user profiles using Amazon Cognito User Pools. User Pools provide a user interface you can customize to match your app. User Pools also enable easy integration with social identity providers such as Facebook, Google, and Amazon, and enterprise identity providers such as Microsoft Active Directory through SAML.

With Amazon Cognito identity pools, you can create unique identities and assign permissions for users. Your identity pool can bring in identities from the following types of authentication services:

• Users in an Amazon Cognito user pool
• Users who authenticate with external identity providers such as Facebook, Google, Apple, or an OIDC or SAML identity provider.
• Users authenticated via your own existing authentication process