An Introduction to Amazon Cognito User Pools
- by Emre Yilmaz
- Feb 7, 2018
- AWS • Serverless • Amazon Cognito
When you build a new application, developing a secure, scalable user pool and authorization mechanism is a necessity and it takes time and effort to build. Sometimes, it even delays the development of the core features of your application that will bring the actual value to your business.
Amazon Cognito provides a scalable and secure user pool that you can create and use in your mobile and web applications. It provides a hosted user interface and SDKs for sign in and sign up actions. It has many features such as sending verification emails, SMS messages to your users. In this blog post, I will discuss how you can create an Amazon Cognito User Pool to use as an authentication mechanism in your applications. Read more at An Introduction to Amazon Cognito User Pools post.