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Amazon Cognito user pool

Amazon Cognito user pool - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

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Amazon Cognito user pool

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- [Narrator] There are two components that make up Amazon Cognito, Cognito user pools, and identity pools. In this lecture, we're going to be looking at Cognito user pools. An Amazon Cognito user pool is a managed user directory service that provides signup and sign-in functionalities to your web and mobile applications. With user pool, you can handle the authentication of users via the Cognito user pool APIs. So this truly takes a lot of development overhead on your part as you no longer have to code a backend service for a login system yourself. If you don't want to build a sign-in UI for your application, perhaps you're working on a pet project and just want to get it done. Cognitive user pool also has a built-in user interface for signing in users. This hosted UI is customizable. You can change the way it looks. You can modify the size and color buttons in input fields, and you can even upload your own brand logo if you…

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