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.

Cumhur Akkaya
9 min readSep 1, 2023

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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Cumhur Akkaya

✦ Multi-Cloud & DevOps Engineer, ✦Technical Writer, ✦AWS Community Builder, ✦LinkedInTop Voice, ✦Believes in learning by doing, ✦ linkedin.com/in/cumhurakkaya