Amazon Cognito | General Flashcards
What is Amazon Cognito?
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Amazon Cognito | Security, Identity & Compliance
Amazon Cognito lets you easily add user sign-up and authentication to your mobile and web apps. Amazon Cognito also enables you to authenticate users through an external identity provider and provides temporary security credentials to access your app’s backend resources in AWS or any service behind Amazon API Gateway. Amazon Cognito works with external identity providers that support SAML or OpenID Connect, social identity providers (such as Facebook, Twitter, Amazon) and you can also integrate your own identity provider.
In addition, Amazon Cognito enables you to synchronize data across a user’s devices so that their app experience remains consistent when they switch between devices or upgrade to a new device. Your app can save data locally on users’ devices allowing your applications to work even when the devices are offline and then automatically synchronize the data when the device is back online.
With Amazon Cognito, you can focus on creating great app experiences instead of worrying about building, securing, and scaling a solution to handle user management, authentication, and sync across platforms and devices.
Who should use Amazon Cognito?
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Amazon Cognito | Security, Identity & Compliance
Amazon Cognito is designed for developers who want to add user management and sync functionality to their mobile and web apps. Developers can use Cognito Identity to add sign-up and sign-in to their apps and to enable their users to securely access their app’s resources. Cognito also enables developers to sync data across devices, platforms, and applications.
How do I start using Amazon Cognito?
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Amazon Cognito | Security, Identity & Compliance
You can easily get started by visiting the AWS Console. If you do not have an Amazon Web Services account, you can create an account when you sign in to the console. Once you have created a user pool for user management or an identity pool for federated identities or sync operations, you can download and integrate the AWS Mobile SDK with your app. Alternatively you can call the Cognito server-side APIs directly, instead of using the SDK. See our developer guide for more information.
Does Amazon Cognito expose server-side APIs?
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Amazon Cognito | Security, Identity & Compliance
Yes. Cognito exposes server-side APIs. You can create your own custom interface to Cognito by calling these APIs directly. The server-side APIs are described in the Developer Guide.
Which platforms does Amazon Cognito support?
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Amazon Cognito | Security, Identity & Compliance
Support for Cognito is included in the optional AWS Mobile SDK, which is available for iOS, Android, Unity, and Kindle Fire. Cognito is also available in the AWS SDK for JavaScript. Cognito Your User Pools is currently supported in the AWS Mobile SDKs for iOS and Android and in the JavaScript AWS SDK for Cognito. Visit our resource page to download the SDKs.
