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Amazon Cognito

Implement secure, frictionless customer identity and access management that scales
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Introduction to Amazon Cognito

Amazon Cognito processes more than 100 billion authentications per month. The service helps you implement customer identity and access management (CIAM) into your web and mobile applications. You can quickly add user authentication and access control to your applications in minutes.

Benefits of Amazon Cognito

Deliver frictionless customer identity and access management with a developer-centric, cost-effective, and customizable service.
Add advanced security features such as risk-based adaptive authentication, compromised credential monitoring, and security metrics to support your compliance and data residency requirements.
Scale to millions of users with a fully managed, high-performance, and reliable user directory.
Federate sign-in by using OpenID Connect or SAML 2.0 and connect to a broad group of AWS services and products.

Use cases

Allow customers to sign in directly, or through social or enterprise identity providers, to a hosted UI with your branding.

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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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