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Tag: Amazon Cognito
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: […]
In Case You Missed These: AWS Security Blog Posts from March and April
In case you missed any of the AWS Security Blog posts from March and April, they are summarized and linked to below. The posts are shown in reverse chronological order (most recent first), and the subject matter ranges from the AWS Config Rules repository to automatically updating AWS WAF IP blacklists. April April 28, AWS […]
Amazon Cognito Now Provides Sign-Up and Sign-In Functionality for Your Apps (Beta)
Today, Amazon Cognito launched the beta of a new feature that makes it easy for developers to add sign-up and sign-in functionality to mobile and web apps. With this new feature, you get a simple, fully managed service you can use to create and maintain your user pool that can scale to hundreds of millions […]
Building an App Using Amazon Cognito and an OpenID Connect Identity Provider
January 11, 2023: This blog post has been updated to reflect the correct OAuth 2.0 endpoint for the Identity Provider (IdP) used and to use an updated version of the AWS SDK for JavaScript. This post has also been refreshed with updated steps to configure an Amazon Cognito Identity Pool and creating a Connected App […]
In Case You Missed Them: Some Recent Security Enhancements in AWS
With the steady cadence of updates and enhancements for AWS services, it can sometimes be easy to miss announcements about features that relate to security. Here are some recent security-related updates in AWS services that we’re excited about and that you might not have heard about. AWS Trusted Advisor inspects your AWS environment and finds […]
How Does Amazon Cognito Relate to Existing Web Identity Federation?
As you might have seen, AWS recently released Amazon Cognito, a user identity and data synchronization service that helps you securely manage and synchronize app data for your users across their mobile devices. If you develop mobile apps that call AWS services, you definitely want to check out Amazon Cognito. What is Amazon Cognito? Amazon […]