Introduction to Amazon Cognito

This lesson introduces you to Amazon Cognito, a service that helps in simplifying user sign-up, sign-in, and overall authentication of your mobile and web applications.

Learning Objectives

• Create your own authentication mechanisms using Amazon Cognito
• Create your own customized UI for user sign-in
• Set up a secure user directory for all of your applications and users

Intended Audience

Anyone who's trying to understand what mechanisms are available for user authentication within AWS, specifically if they wanna use third-party identity providers such as Apple, Facebook, Google, and Amazon.

Prerequisites

To get the most out of this lesson, you should have a decent understanding of cloud computing and cloud architectures, specifically on Amazon Web Services. You should also be familiar with basic security terminology, IAM, user authentication, and federation. It would also be helpful to know about Active Directory and other AD-type services.