AWS Cognito

Amazon Cognito is a powerful customer identity and access management (CIAM) service that enables developers to add secure authentication, authorization, and user management to web and mobile applications. Some key benefits include:

• Frictionless user experience: Provide a smooth sign-up and sign-in flow with customizable UI and support for social and enterprise identity providers.
• Advanced security: Protect user accounts with features like adaptive authentication, compromised credential checking, and detailed security metrics.
• Scalable user directory: Easily scale to millions of users with a fully managed, high-performance user directory.
• Standards-based federation: Support for OpenID Connect and SAML 2.0 allows integration with a wide range of AWS services and third-party applications.
• Flexible authentication options: Allow users to sign in directly or via social/enterprise identity providers to a branded hosted UI.
• Secure access to AWS resources: Enable role-based access to AWS services like S3, DynamoDB and Lambda for your application users.
• B2B identity management: Support multi-tenancy with different levels of isolation between business customers.
• Machine-to-machine auth: Securely connect microservices and backend resources.

With a generous free tier and pay-per-use pricing, Amazon Cognito makes it easy and cost-effective to implement robust customer identity management that grows with your application. The service handles the heavy lifting of securing and scaling your auth layer so you can focus on building great user experiences.