What is Amazon Cognito?
Amazon Cognito facilitates the quick and easy implementation of user registration, authentication, and access control in both web and mobile applications. This service is engineered to manage millions of users and offers authentication through well-known social identity providers such as Facebook, Google, and Amazon, along with enterprise identity services utilizing SAML 2.0. The User Pools functionality provides a robust and secure user directory that can support hundreds of millions of users seamlessly. As a fully managed solution, User Pools can be deployed effortlessly without requiring users to oversee server infrastructure. With Amazon Cognito, individuals have the flexibility to authenticate through various social identity platforms and corporate systems, including Microsoft Active Directory via SAML. Furthermore, Amazon Cognito User Pools complies with a range of identity and access management standards, including OAuth 2.0, SAML 2.0, and OpenID Connect. It also meets stringent industry standards such as HIPAA eligibility, PCI DSS, SOC, ISO/IEC 27001, ISO/IEC 27017, ISO/IEC 27018, and ISO 9001, providing assurance of high security and compliance levels for your applications. This all-encompassing service not only streamlines user management but also fortifies application security across diverse sectors, making it an essential tool for developers. Ultimately, the integration of Amazon Cognito into applications leads to a more efficient and secure user experience.
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Serverless authentication service
Date: Aug 24 2020SummaryAmazon Cognito is a great way to implement secure login to your application. It requires some effort to setup but once done, the user management is quite easy and it integrates really well with other AWS services like Lambda.
PositiveUser Management is easy.
Integrates well with AWS services like Lambda.
Works with Facebook and Google login.
Supports encryption and multi factor authentication.NegativeRequires a decent learning curve for setting it up.
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