Protecting your business and customers from potential fraud and data leaking sometimes may be challenging. AWS Cognito is a service used for users’ authentication and authorization for both mobile and web applications. Being based on Oauth2 specification, it enables secure sign-up and sign-in functions as well as simplification of the users’ management processes.
Having already conquered the trust of numerous clients, AWS Cognito offers an easy and reliable frictionless authentication experience eliminating the necessity for multiple verification steps as well as efficiently blocking suspicious log-in attempts.
AWS Cognito key components
AWS Cognito operates with two main components - User Pools and Identity Pools.
User Pool is a user directory which is used for authentication in the application. User pools may be utilized as the identity provider with customers’ login data being stored in the AWS Cognito user directories.
Identity Pools (Federated Identities) are applied for the user’s authorization. You may consider the following federated identity providers:
- Social Identity Provider (Facebook, Google, Apple)
- SAML Identity Provider (Microsoft Active Directory)
- Open ID Connect Provider
- Amazon Cognito User Pool
Upon carrying out the authorization by the Identity Provider, the identity pool enables users to access the application or a profile. Apart from that, users may obtain credentials for accessing other AWS services.
Why consider Cognito Consulting Services
AWS Cognito functions were designed to facilitate the performance of a wide range of tasks related to the authorization processes.
- AWS Cognito empowers users to reach applications and websites through a self-registration form featuring the possibility of signing up with email, phone number, and username. In case you aim to reduce the workload on your support services, consider the implementation of the password reset option.
- Do you want to be on the safe side and secure your applications from collapse when used by an abundance of customers? AWS Cognito enables B2B interactions with multiple tenants as well as complete tenant isolations.
- Customizable built-in UI is available for building user’s sign-up and sign-in pages and is supported on iOS, Android, and JavaScript SDKs.
- Striving to elevate the security level even more, activate multi-factor authentication (MFA) in the user’s pool. MFA constitutes the additional level of security provided by the verification messages or one-time password applications.
- Being a standard-based identity provider, AWS Cognito makes users capable of signing in through other social identity providers including Google, Apple, and Facebook.
- If an attempt to sign in with inaccurate credentials or any other dubious activity happens, Amazon Cognito detects it and sends a notification to the user encouraging password change.
- Being the representative of the Amazon Web family, AWS Cognito could be easily integrated with other related services like AWS DynamoDB, Amazon S3, Lambda serverless functions, and others.
- Apart from the possible integration with other AWS services, AWS Cognito integrates with various frontend and backend services among which tandem with Node.js is one of the most widespread.
Why Quintagroup for Cognito Consulting
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