Improve your app authentication workflow with new Amazon Cognito features
Introduced 10 years ago, Amazon Cognito is a service that helps you implement customer identity and access management (CIAM) in your web and mobile applications. You can use Amazon Cognito for various use cases, from providing your customers to quickly add sign-in and sign-up experiences to your applications and authorization to securing machine-to-machine authentication and enabling role-based access to AWS resources.
Today, I’m excited to share a series of significant updates to Amazon Cognito. These enhancements aim to provide you with more flexibility, improved security, and a better user experience for your applications.
A new developer-focused console experience Amazon Cognito now offers a streamlined getting-started experience featuring a quick wizard and use case-specific recommendations. This new approach helps you set up configurations and reach your end users faster and more efficiently than ever before.
Amazon Cognito then automatically creates your application and a new user pool, which is a user directory for authentication and authorization. From here, you can review your sign-in page by selecting View login page or get started with the example code for your application. Furthermore, Amazon Cognito supports major application frameworks and offers detailed instructions for integrating them using standard OpenID Connect (OIDC) and OAuth open source libraries.
