Amazon Cognito
Explore the functionalities of Amazon Cognito to manage user authentication and authorization for web, mobile, IoT, and serverless applications. Understand the use of user and identity pools, integration with social identity providers, and how to provide secure temporary AWS credentials. Gain insight into customizing sign-up and sign-in experiences while enhancing security and scalability in your applications.
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Amazon Cognito is used to handle authentication, authorization, and user management for web and mobile applications. Users can log in using their username and password or through a third-party service like Facebook, Amazon, Google, or Apple.
Along with this, Amazon Cognito also provides us the ability to provide temporary AWS credentials to the users. For each of these functionalities, it has a pool.
How Amazon Cognito works
In Amazon Cognito, we can create two types of pools: user and identity pools.
User pools: We can ...