The process of authentication with Amazon Cognito user pools can best be described as a flow where users make an initial choice, submit credentials, and respond to additional challenges. When you implement managed login authentication in your application, Amazon Cognito manages the flow of these prompts and challenges.

In this chapter, we'll talk about how to configure your user pools and app clients for various authentication flows in various application environments. You'll learn about options for the use of the hosted sign-in pages of managed login, and for …

Amazon Cognito supports multiple flows for authentication requests. These flows define how your users can verify their identity. The decision about which authentication flow to use depends on specific requirements of your application and can become complex.

Oct 18, 2019 · In this post, I will show how to leverage Amazon Cognito user pools to customize your authentication flows and allow logging into your applications using Amazon Rekognition for facial recognition using a sample application.

Primarily Amazon Cognito supports the following authentication flows: USER_SRP_AUTH - Authentication flow for the Secure Remote Password (SRP) protocol. Your app collects your user's user name and password and generates an SRP that it passes to Amazon Cognito, instead of plaintext credentials.

Aug 13, 2024 · In AWS Cognito, an “authentication flow” refers to the process by which a user is authenticated, including the steps taken to verify the user’s identity and the mechanism used to secure the...

Jun 26, 2022 · Implicit Grant Flow – An OAuth 2.0 flow used to grant access tokens to users. This flow has security loopholes and should be avoided. Authorization Code Flow – An OAuth 2.0 flow used to grant authorization codes to users, which are then exchanged for access tokens.

Jun 29, 2023 · One such service is Cognito, available from AWS (Amazon Web Services). I’ve done a spike to try and get the sign-up and sign-in flows working, just with username and password for now. The...

Sep 29, 2022 · In Amazon Cognito, user pool and identity pool used together. What is Amazon Cognito? — Amazon Cognito. See the diagram above for a common Amazon Cognito scenario. Here the idea is to...

Jul 19, 2023 · Amazon Cognito allows us to create a custom authentication flow with Lambda triggers. The Lambda triggers can be utilized to establish and authenticate challenges in the responses. My password-free authentication process was created by following this tutorial. In the tutorial, TypeScript was used to write the Lambda triggers.