In the previous section, we created a Cognito pool and added some functionality to our backend to retrieve the Cognito identity from our context object. Here, we will create a web frontend for our application, a web client. We will first generate a JavaScript SDK of our service using API Gateway, and then we will use this SDK with a Cognito client in a simple web page. Open the Amazon Cognito dashboard from the AWS Management Console. To use the Cognito site, go to Services and type in Cognito.
Cognito is a web service that allows you to manage or implement sign-up and sign-in functionality for your application. There are two options that are provided on the Cognito site: Manage your User Pools and Manage Federated Identities. You can create your own Cognito pool or you can use federated identities if you want to allow your users to authenticate, for example...
