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Cognito - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial
From the course: Learning Amazon Web Services (AWS) for Developers
Cognito
- [Instructor] Continuing our discussion on how users access services and features through your app or website, we're going to talk about Cognito. So Cognito offers two types of pools, user pools and identity pools. User pools are user directories that provide sign-up and sign-in options for your app users. So basically users that create an account through your app or your website using AWS. Identity pools provide AWS credentials to grant your users access to others AWS services without possibly a login directly through your app. So maybe through a third party or maybe through a custom login that you already have on the server. So user pools are created using the settings and options that allow users to log in. So you can specify if they have to have a username and email address, the different criteria for their password, and also MFA and anything else that you would require during login. Identity pools also allow…
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