Cognito - Identity Provider

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identity provider in Cognito.

They are used to authenticate a user, retrieve and update user pool profiles.

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Internal

• Cognito - User Pool
• Cognito - Identity Pool

External

External Identity provider possibility:

• SAML
• OpenID Connect (
  • Example with Auth0
    • Auth0 doc
    • sample code
• social identity providers (such as Facebook, Twitter, Amazon)
• custom / own identity provider.