Audience

Organizations that want a simple & secure user sign-up, sign-in, and access control solution

About Amazon Cognito

Amazon Cognito lets you add user sign-up, sign-in, and access control to your web and mobile apps quickly and easily. Amazon Cognito scales to millions of users and supports sign-in with social identity providers, such as Facebook, Google, and Amazon, and enterprise identity providers via SAML 2.0. Amazon Cognito User Pools provide a secure user directory that scales to hundreds of millions of users. As a fully managed service, User Pools are easy to set up without any worries about standing up server infrastructure. With Amazon Cognito, your users can sign in through social identity providers such as Google, Facebook, and Amazon, and through enterprise identity providers such as Microsoft Active Directory via SAML. Amazon Cognito User Pools is a standards-based Identity Provider and supports identity and access management standards, such as Oauth 2.0, SAML 2.0, and OpenID Connect. HIPAA eligible and PCI DSS, SOC, ISO/IEC 27001, ISO/IEC 27017, ISO/IEC 27018, and ISO 9001 compliant.

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Ratings/Reviews - 1 User Review

Overall 5.0 / 5
ease 4.0 / 5
features 5.0 / 5
design 5.0 / 5
support 5.0 / 5
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Company Information

Amazon
Founded: 1994
United States
aws.amazon.com/cognito/

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Amazon Cognito Frequently Asked Questions

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Amazon Cognito Product Features

Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM)

Access Certification Not Supported
Access Management Not Supported
Automatic User/Device Recognition Not Supported
Behavioral Analytics Not Supported
Credential Management Not Supported
Data Security Not Supported
Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) Not Supported
Real Time Notifications Not Supported
Analytics / Reporting Not Supported
Self-Service Portal Not Supported
Single Sign On Not Supported
User Provisioning Not Supported
Privacy / Consent Management Not Supported

Identity Management

Single Sign On Not Supported
Compliance Management Not Supported
Multifactor Authentication Not Supported
Password Management Not Supported
User Provisioning Not Supported
Access Certification Not Supported
Privileged Account Management Not Supported
User Activity Monitoring Not Supported
Self-Service Access Request Not Supported

Amazon Cognito Verified User Reviews

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  • An Amazon Cognito User
    Software Developer
    Used the software for: Less than 6 months
    Frequency of Use: Weekly
    User Role: User
    Company Size: 100 - 499
    Design
    Ease
    Features
    Pricing
    Support
    Probability You Would Recommend?
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    "Serverless authentication service"

    Posted 2020-08-24

    Pros: User Management is easy.
    Integrates well with AWS services like Lambda.
    Works with Facebook and Google login.
    Supports encryption and multi factor authentication.

    Cons: Requires a decent learning curve for setting it up.
    Documentation needs to be simplified more.

    Overall: Amazon 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.

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