Amazon Cognito was built purely for the simplification of enabling secure authentication and access control for new and existing users accessing your web or mobile applications. It integrates well with not only enterprise federation but also social federation. One of the biggest features of Amazon Cognito is that it has the capability to scale to millions of new users, which is great when working with mobile applications, which will be the focus of this discussion.
There are two main components of Amazon Cognito that you should be aware of, these being user pools and identity pools, and they perform different actions that we will see in the following sections.
