Customer Identity And Access Management - Amazon Cognito
Implement secure, frictionless customer identity and access management that scales.
Learn more about Amazon Cognito
What is Amazon Cognito
✔ Deliver frictionless customer identity and access management (CIAM) with a cost-effective and customizable platform.
✔ Add security features such as adaptive authentication, support compliance, and data residency requirements.
✔ Scale to millions of users across devices with a fully managed, high-performant, and reliable identity store.
Use Cases
Flexible authentication
Allow customers to sign in directly, or through social or enterprise identity providers, to a hosted UI with your branding.
Manage B2B identities
Use a variety of multi-tenancy options that provide different levels of policy and tenant isolation for your business.
Secure authentication
Develop modern, secure, microservice-based applications, and more easily connect your application to backend resources and web services.
Access to AWS resources
Gain secure, role-based access to AWS services, such as Amazon S3, Amazon DynamoDB, and AWS Lambda.
Amazon Cognito on the Free Tier
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Implement secure, frictionless customer identity and access management that scales. |
ALWAYS FREE 50,000 MAUs each month 10 GB of cloud sync storage 1,000,000 sync operations per month |
Free Tier Offer
AWS helps new customers get started for free. See how you can use the AWS Free Tier with Amazon Cognito
50,000 MAUs each month
10 GB of cloud sync storage
1,000,000 sync operations per month
Learn more about building with Amazon Cognito
Browse through our collection of case studies, videos, and tutorials to learn more about Amazon Cognito
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Videos
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Customer Stories
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Tutorials
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Videos
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Amazon Cognito User Pools New Console Walkthrough (5:21)
Passwordless authentication with Amazon Cognito (11:41)
How do I configure the hosted web UI for Amazon Cognito? (6:10)
Amazon Cognito Increases Security with Native Support for AWS WAF (5:31)
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Customer Stories
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With the breadth of HIPAA-eligible services available from AWS, ConvergeHEALTH by Deloitte was able to build a regulatory-compliant architecture with Amazon Cognito and other AWS services that enables sensitive personal health information to reside locally in a highly secure and compliant environment.
When the COVID-19 pandemic forced many retail stores to close, Neiman Marcus launched Connect quickly to enable associates to perform digital selling. They were able to create client libraries using Amazon Cognito, handling registration, authentication, and account recovery.
Siemens’s Smart Infrastructure Low Power (SI LP) business unit recently released the Junelight Smart Battery, a consumer battery product for use in homes to store electrical energy from solar panels. For secure user directories, Junelight uses Amazon Cognito, which provides a user directory that can scale to hundreds of millions of users.
The Deep Data Research Computing Center (DDRCC) at Stanford University, is part of the Department of Genetics at Stanford Medicine. To maintain a high level of security, DDRCC has adopted AWS services like Amazon Cognito, a service that lets teams add user sign-up, sign-in, and access control to web and mobile apps.
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Tutorials
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Getting started with user pools
Learn how to set up and configure a user pool for the first time with the Amazon Cognito console. The procedures suggest default settings for your new user pool to get you started.
Getting started with Amazon Cognito identity pools (federated identities)
With Amazon Cognito Identity Pools, you can create unique identities and assign permissions for users. In this tutorial, learn how you can also sign in users through social identity providers, such as Facebook, Google, or Apple, or through corporate identity providers with SAML or OIDC and control access to your backend resources.
Enable user data with AWS AppSync
If you're new to Amazon Cognito Sync, use AWS AppSync. Like Amazon Cognito Sync, AWS AppSync is a service for synchronizing application data across devices. Learn how to get started by platform.
AWS Free Tier
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