When should I use AWS Cognito?

When should I use AWS Cognito?

Advantages of AWS Cognito

1. Consistent Experience Across Multiple Devices. If your application is multi-device, using Cognito would make your life as a developer easier.
2. Guest Logins.
3. Social Media Logins.
4. MFA and Password Policies.
5. Marketing Analytics.
6. Lesser Configuration Control.
7. Expensive Security Options.
8. AWS SDK Knowledge.

How does Cognito work AWS?

Amazon Cognito provides authentication, authorization, and user management for your web and mobile apps. Your users can sign in directly with a user name and password, or through a third party such as Facebook, Amazon, Google or Apple. The two main components of Amazon Cognito are user pools and identity pools.

How do you use Cognito user pool?

Getting Started with User Pools

1. Prerequisite: Sign Up for an AWS Account.
2. Create a User Pool.
3. Add an App to Enable the Hosted Web UI.
4. Add Social Sign-in to a User Pool (Optional)
5. Add Sign-in with a SAML Identity Provider to a User Pool (Optional)
6. Next Steps.

How expensive is AWS Cognito?

As part of the AWS Free Tier, eligible AWS customers receive 10 GB of cloud sync store and 1,000,000 sync operations per month for the first 12 months. Outside the Free Tier, Amazon Cognito costs $0.15 for each 10,000 sync operations and $0.15 per GB of sync store per month.

Can you use Cognito without amplify?

Is there a way to use Cognito service without Amplify libraries? Another approach that you can do, is to use Amazon Cognito as an OAuth server. When you create an Amazon Cognito Hosted UI Domain, it provides you an OAuth 2.0 compliant authorization server.

What is AWS Cognito user pool?

A user pool is a user directory in Amazon Cognito. With a user pool, your users can sign in to your web or mobile app through Amazon Cognito. Your users can also sign in through social identity providers like Google, Facebook, Amazon, or Apple, and through SAML identity providers.