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Amazon Cognito

Implement secure, scalable authentication and access control for users, AI agents, and microservices in minutes

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Meet Amazon Cognito

Amazon Cognito helps you implement secure sign-in and access control for users, AI agents, and microservices in minutes. Processing more than 100 billion authentications per month, Cognito provides comprehensive identity and access management for both human users and machine identities. It is a cost-effective service that provides tenant-based identity stores and federation options. Cognito helps you create branded customer experiences, improve security, and adapt to your customers’ needs. For example, it supports login with social identity providers and passwordless login using WebAuthn passkeys or SMS and email one-time-passwords. Additionally, Cognito is tightly integrated with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity, serving as a trusted identity provider to enable secure agent access to AWS and third-party resources.

Benefits of Amazon Cognito

Eliminates identity fragmentation by letting developers manage user and machine authentication through one AWS-native service, reducing tool sprawl, simplifying security architecture, and providing consistent authentication across users, AI agents, and workloads.

Provides secure and scalable customer identity and access management that is enterprise-grade, cost-effective, and customizable. Supports login with social identity providers and passwordless login using WebAuthn passkeys or SMS and email one-time-passwords. Scale to millions of users with a fully managed, high-performance, and reliable user directory.

Equips developers with low-code, no-code features that improve productivity. Configure customized sign up and sign in experiences that match your brand without custom code. Works with a broad set of developer frameworks, including AWS Amplify, React, Next.js, Angular, Vue, Flutter, Java, .NET, C++, PHP, Python, Golang, Ruby, iOS (Swift) and Android.

Offers advanced security features such as risk-based adaptive authentication, compromised credential monitoring, IP geo-velocity tracking, and security metrics to support threat detection and protection against potentially malicious logins.

Use cases

Provide your customers with secure, passwordless access and branded customer experiences with the enhanced UI editor.

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Use a variety of multi-tenancy options that provide different levels of policy and tenant isolation for your business.

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Develop modern, secure, microservice-based applications, and more easily connect your application to backend resources and web services.

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Gain secure, role-based access to AWS services, such as Amazon S3, Amazon DynamoDB, and AWS Lambda.

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Use Amazon Cognito to authenticate communication between your applications, microservices, or APIs using the OAuth 2.0 client-credentials flow. Issue short-lived, scoped tokens instead of using static API keys and secure machine-to-machine calls within your AWS environment.

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