AWS Security Blog

Category: Amazon Cognito

How to implement password-less authentication with Amazon Cognito and WebAuthn

In this blog post, I show you how to offer a password-less authentication experience to your customers. To do this, you’ll allow physical security keys or platform authenticators (like finger-print scanners) to be used as the authentication factor to your web or mobile applications that use Amazon Cognito user pools for authentication. An Amazon Cognito […]

How to configure Duo multi-factor authentication with Amazon Cognito

October 23: This post has been updated to utilize Duo Web v4 SDK and OIDC approach for integration with Duo two-factor authentication. Adding multi-factor authentication (MFA) reduces the risk of user account take-over, phishing, and password theft. Adding MFA while providing a frictionless sign-in experience requires you to offer a variety of MFA options that […]

Role-based access control using Amazon Cognito and an external identity provider

September 8, 2023: It’s important to know that if you activate user sign-up in your user pool, anyone on the internet can sign up for an account and sign in to your apps. Don’t enable self-registration in your user pool unless you want to open your app to allow users to sign up. Amazon Cognito […]

How to set case sensitivity in the Amazon Cognito console

AWS recently updated how Amazon Cognito user pools are created so that new user pools are case insensitive by default. An Amazon Cognito user pool is a user directory that helps you manage end-user identities. With this new feature, the native user name, email alias, and preferred user name alias are marked as case insensitive […]

Amazon Cognito User Pools Now Integrates with Amazon Pinpoint to Add Analytics for User Pools

Amazon Cognito User Pools now integrates with Amazon Pinpoint to provide analytics for user pools and to enrich the user data for Amazon Pinpoint campaigns. Amazon Cognito User Pools provides user directories that make it easy to add sign-up and sign-in to your mobile or web application. Amazon Pinpoint provides analytics and targeted campaigns to drive […]

Amazon Cognito Your User Pools is Now Generally Available

Amazon Cognito makes it easy for developers to add sign-up, sign-in, and enhanced security functionality to mobile and web apps. With Amazon Cognito Your User Pools, you get a simple, fully managed service for creating and maintaining your own user directory that can scale to hundreds of millions of users. With today’s launch, user pools adds: […]