Amazon Cognito is an offering from Amazon Web Services that you can use to manage user accounts. It provides authentication and authorization as well as enabling integrations with SAML and OIDC compatible identity providers.

In this hands-on lab, you will use the Amazon Web Services Management Console to create users, register an application with Amazon Cognito, and test user authentication.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this lab you will be able to:

• Create a Cognito User Pool, and configure it with various policies
• Create a job to Import users into a User Pool
• Manually add users into the User Pool
• Use the AWS SDK to authenticate users

Prerequisites

You should be familiar with:

• Amazon Web Services Management Console
• Although not required, familiarity with JavaScript and SDKs is preferred
• A basic understanding of GitHub is also helpful

Environment

After completing the lab instructions the environment should look similar to:

 

 

Updates

January 30th, 2023 - Updated the instructions and screenshots to reflect the latest UI

April 22nd, 2022 - Updated web app in accordance with API change

November 2nd, 2020 - Updated instructions and screenshots to match the updated user interface

January 10th, 2019 - Added a validation Lab Step to check the work you perform in the Lab