Amazon Cognito
Jon Bonso2025-12-26T17:29:18+00:00How It Works User Pools Identity Pools Common Use Cases Pricing Validate Your Knowledge Amazon Cognito Cheat Sheet A user management and authentication service that can be integrated into your web or mobile applications. Amazon Cognito enables authentication through external identity providers and provides temporary AWS credentials to access your app’s backend resources or any service behind Amazon API Gateway. It supports SAML, OpenID Connect (OIDC), and social identity providers (Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, Google, Apple, Microsoft, LinkedIn), as well as your own identity provider. All Cognito ID tokens are represented as JSON [...]
