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Authentication with Cognito

Amazon Cognito is a managed service that provides a mechanism for authenticating and authorizing users for the web. We'll be covering the two main components for user management—user pools and identity pools. Each component is different and you can pick the one that suits your needs the best or even use both. When I first used Cognito, I thought it was performing magic, and it totally is, so I'm excited to be able to share this service with you!

Cognito was designed to provide authentication, authorization, and user management capabilities. For the authentication part, users of a protected service can be local or federated to identity providers such as Facebook or Google for social identities, or your own enterprise ...