Amit Kumar Sanu

AWS Cognito

By Amit Kumar Sanu

Last updated July 19, 2021

Amazon Cognito is a medium that provides authentication, authorization & user management for web & mobile applications.

How It Works

What is the use of Amazon Cognito

Enhanced Security
Cross-Platform Consistency
Guest and Social Media Logins
MFA and Password Policies
Marketing Analytics

There two components involve in Amazon Cognito

User Pools – User pools are user directories that provide sign-up and sign-in options for your web and mobile app users
Identity Pools – Identity pools provide AWS credentials to grant your users access to otherAWS services

Hands on

Step 1: First you need to build the app for signIn and SignUp so i set up a simple react registration app for the demo purpose. Let’s go VScode and set up the prerequisite thing.

And install the necessary packages.

Step2 : Quickly move to the aws cognito and click create a user pool

Step3: Name the Pool name -> step through setting

Step4: In setting there several option which we can set accordingly

Step 5: Here we can set the password strength configuration -> most important select the Allow users to sign themselves up option otherwise user would not be able sign up only admin can create user which will not good for our scenario

Step6 : set the password expiration time

Step 7: Choose the email verification type via link or code

Step 8: To make it simple, select NO.

Step 9 : Now Add the app client click on it and fill the detail ->

-> most important point to care here uncheck the Generate client secret

-> Click on set attribute read and write permissions select according to your requirement i am selecting all -> Next

-> Next Step

-> pool created successfully

-> Go to Domain name and create the Amazon cognito domain -> enter the domain prefix -> check availablity-> you have Use your own domain option -> you can choose that also -> save changes.