Cognito

Question 1

What is Cognito?

Answer 1

Web identity federation that acts as an identity broker for signup and sign in. Also allows guest users.

Recommended for all web apps but especially for mobile apps

Syncs user data for seamless experience across all devices

Question 2

Web Identity Federation

Answer 2

Gives users access to AWS resources after successfully authentication with Web-based provider

Question 3

Web Identity Federation providers Cognito supports

Answer 3

Amazon
Google
Facebook

Question 4

Used for Sign up and sign in functionality

Answer 4

User Pool

Question 5

How sign in indirectly using User Pool

Answer 5

Identity Provider

Question 6

What do you receive in exchange for credentials in identity pool in Conginto?

Answer 6

a JWT token

Question 7

Feature to use if you want to federate users into AWS service and provide them temp access

Answer 7

Identity Pool

Question 8

Used to update user data on multiple devices

Answer 8

Push synchronization

Amazon Cognito Sync

Question 9

How do you pay in Cognito

Answer 9

based on monthly active users