AWS Flashcards
1
Q
What does Amazon Cognito provide?
A
authentication, authorization, and user management for your web and mobile apps.
2
Q
What are the two main components of Amazon Cognito?
A
user pools and identity pools
3
Q
What are Cognito user pools?
A
user directories that provide sign-up and sign-in options for your app users
4
Q
What do Cognito identity pools do?
A
provide AWS credentials to grant your users access to other AWS services
5
Q
a user pool is ____ in Amazon Cognito
A
a user directory
6
Q
How can your app users sign in with Amazon Cognito?
A
they can either sign in directly thru a user pool, or federate thru a third party Identity Provider
7
Q
what are the three common IdM standards Cognito uses?
A
OIDC, OAuth 2.0, SAML 2.0
