Amazon Cognito-1: Creating Cognito User Pools for authentication, and Connecting to an Application by using it.

We will create AWS Cognito User Pools for authentication, and we will connect to an application using the User Pools Hosted UI. We will examine the records created in our user pool about users. Then we will use Identity Pools to authorize where users can access our application. We will do all of these step by step in practice.

Topics we will cover:

1. What is the Amazon Cognito

2. Creating User Poll

3. Integrating an App client to User Pool

4. Setting up the Hosted UI

5. Connecting to an application using the User Pools Hosted UI

6. Examining the records created in our user pool about users

7. As a result

8. Next post

9. References

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1. What is the Amazon Cognito

Amazon Cognito is an identity platform for web and mobile apps. It’s a user directory, an authentication server, and an authorization service for OAuth 2.0 access tokens and AWS credentials. With Amazon Cognito, you can authenticate and authorize users from the built-in user directory, from your enterprise directory, and from consumer identity providers like Google and Facebook. (1)

The two main components of Amazon Cognito are user pools and identity pools;

User pools are user directories that provide sign-up and sign-in options for your web and mobile app users.

Identity pools provide AWS credentials to grant your users access to other AWS services.