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Amazon Cognito

Amazon Cognito - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

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Amazon Cognito

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In this lesson, I'll cover Amazon Cognito. So with Cognito, we have a couple of different elements that you need to fully understand. One is called Cognito user pool and the other is an identity pool. So we'll start with a user pool. Now Cognito is principally used for sign in and sign up services for client or mobile applications. So we might have an application running on a smartphone. running on an app in some way, or it could be running on some kind of other application server somewhere, and it needs sign up or sign in functionality. So a user pool is a directory for managing sign in and sign up. So in other words, people can create accounts within the user pool itself, it is a directory. So you can have the users creating accounts within the user pool, and then to be able to actually sign in so to authenticate. So the app will send an authentication requests to the user pool. Now you can also integrate social identity providers IDPs like Facebook or Amazon or Apple, Google and so…

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