Serverless Programming Cookbook

Creating Cognito user pool with CloudFormation template

Various sections of the CloudFormation template correspond to the CLI commands that we saw in the previous section. The complete template YAML file is available in the code files:

1. Start the template with the template format version and a description (optional):

---AWSTemplateFormatVersion: '2010-09-09'Description: 'My First Cognito User Pool'

2. Start to define the user pool resource with the type, AWS::Cognito::UserPool:

Resources:  MyFirstUserPool:    Type: AWS::Cognito::UserPool

3. Under Properties, first, define a Policies property with a PasswordPolicy, as follows:

Properties:  Policies:    PasswordPolicy:      MinimumLength: 8      RequireLowercase: true      RequireNumbers: true      RequireSymbols: true ...