Building Serverless Web Applications

Creating a user pool

Let's take a look at the following steps to create a user pool:

1. To create a user pool, we will use the console, which can be accessed through https://console.aws.amazon.com/cognito. Select the Manage your User Pools option:

2. Click on Create a User Pool on the next screen, as shown in the following screenshot:

3. Now define a pool name for your user pool resource and check whether you want fast creation (using defaults) or whether you want to step through each setting. I've selected the former (Review defaults):

4. The ...