What is AWS Cognito?

For a small company, keeping track of user accounts for a mobile or web app is not terribly difficult. It might be a simple database you deploy and manage manually. The problem arises when you suddenly start managing hundreds, thousands, or millions of user accounts. At that point, the task is much more complicated and can involve security and authentication, access control, social media identity providers like Facebook, and other factors. What started as a fairly simple process becomes a full-time job for someone on your staff.

AWS Cognito is a user account control service that runs in the cloud. It’s designed to relieve many of the headaches related to user account control for mobile and web apps. By using AWS Cognito, you can take full control of the account management and then scale accordingly using cloud services.

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