Serverless Programming Cookbook

How to do it...

We will look at how to create a group, how to add users to it, and finally, how to check a user for their groups:

1. Create the following users: admin_user and regular_user.
2. Create a group called administrators, as follows:

aws cognito-idp create-group \    --group-name 'administrators' \    --user-pool-id us-east-1_fYsb1Gyec \    --description 'Administrator Group' \    --profile admin

If this is successful, it should return the following response:

3. Create a group called authenticated_users, following the command in the previous step.

4. Add the user regular_user to the authenticated_users, as follows:

aws cognito-idp admin-add-user-to-group ...