Amazon Cognito
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Amazon Cognito
AuthenticationWhat is Amazon Cognito?
You can create unique identities for your users through a number of public login providers (Amazon, Facebook, and Google) and also support unauthenticated guests. You can save app data locally on users’ devices allowing your applications to work even when the devices are offline.
Amazon Cognito is a tool in the Authentication category of a tech stack.
Key Features
Manage Unique IdentitiesWork OfflineStore and Sync across DevicesSeamless Guest AccessSafeguard AWS CredentialsControl Access to AWS Resources
Amazon Cognito Pros & Cons
Pros of Amazon Cognito
- ✓Backed by Amazon
- ✓Manage Unique Identities
- ✓Work Offline
- ✓MFA
- ✓Store and Sync
- ✓Free for first 50000 users
- ✓Integrate with Google, Amazon, Twitter, Facebook, SAML
- ✓It works
- ✓SDKs and code samples
Cons of Amazon Cognito
- ✗Massive Pain to get working
- ✗Documentation often out of date
- ✗Login-UI sparsely customizable (e.g. no translation)
- ✗Different Language SDKs not compatible
- ✗Difficult to customize (basic-pack is more than humble)
- ✗Docs are vast but mostly useless
- ✗Hard to find expiration times for tokens/codes
- ✗Lacks many basic features
- ✗MFA: there is no "forget device" function
- ✗No recovery codes for MFA
Amazon Cognito Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Amazon Cognito?
Auth0
A set of unified APIs and tools that instantly enables Single Sign On and user management to all your applications.
AWS IAM
It enables you to manage access to AWS services and resources securely. Using IAM, you can create and manage AWS users and groups, and use permissions to allow and deny their access to AWS resources.
Keycloak
It is an Open Source Identity and Access Management For Modern Applications and Services. It adds authentication to applications and secure services with minimum fuss. No need to deal with storing users or authenticating users. It's all available out of the box.
