Topic: Cognito

The past days have been full of content about serverless workloads with AWS AppSync, Amazon Cognito, and AWS Fargate. This guide wraps up all scenarios and is your starting point if you want to build modern serverless applications with AWS using the Cloud Development Kit (CDK).

The Amazon AppSync Events API was recently announced and is a new feature to use a WebSocket API for real-time communication. Based on the Amazon Cognito User Pool with Managed Login and guide for GraphQL Data API in Amazon AppSync, this guide shows you how to add real-time communication to your React application using WebSockets and the Amazon AppSync Events API with Amazon Cognito.

The Amazon Cognito User Pool with Managed Login is a great baseline to start a new project. This guide adds an AWS AppSync GraphQL Data API to the project and shows you how to use the Amazon Cognito Access Token to authenticate against the GraphQL API using the Apollo Client in React.

Just before AWS re:Invent 2024, Amazon Cognito released a new feature called Managed Login. Using this, Amazon Cognito will provide the fully-managed, hosted sign-in and sign-up experience for your users. This guide will show you how to configure an Amazon Cognito User Pool with a custom domain and Managed Login; all done with the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK).