AWS Cognito

• To authenticate users so that they can interact with our application
  • Difference between this and IAM:
    • Cognito is good for hundreds of users, support authentication with SAML
    • IAM is for the users within your AWS infrastructure
• Some of the services
  • AWS Cognito User Pools:
    • Provides sign-in functionality for app-users
    • Integrate with API Gateway and Application Load Balancer
  • AWS Cognito Identity Pools (Federated Identitiy):
    • Provide AWS Credentials so user can access AWS resources directly
    • Integrate with AWS Cognito User Pools as an identity provider
  • AWS Cognito Sync:
    • Synchronise data between different devices to keep the state of users to Cognito
    • Deprecated and replaced by AWS AppSync