Questions tagged [aws-userpools]
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Update Cognito User Pool/AWS Resources
I am using serverless framework to deploy AWS resources (User Pool, Identity Pool, Dynamo Tables). I know you're not allowed to make changes to a User Pool once it is already created (and similarly Dynamo indexes). I was wondering what the best…

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How do I use kinesis firehose from iOS without the user creating a username and password?
I'm building out an SDK in Swift that collects data from a phone and sends it to AWS. However, there will be a lot of "stream" data and the user will not have to sign in to anything as it will run silently in the app.
My current implementation sends…

Seth
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AWS Cognito - Users lost "non-mutable" attribute "email_verified"
After using Cognito for a few months, some users in a user pool have now lost the "email_verified" attribute. I can't understand how it is missing or how to recover.
Symptoms are:
Users can still login
User password can not change (eg via JS SDK -…

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How could I generate temporary credentials using Cognito Identity pool for accessing aws services?
I have a cognito user pool and identity pool. I have created an user in user pool. I got the tokens i.e. access, refresh, id tokens using lambda for that user. Now I want to generate the temporary credentials i.e. access key and secrete access key…

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AWS Cognito UserPool Custom Sign In Protecting AppClientSecret
I have seen links (like this one: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/mobile/how-amazon-cognito-keeps-mobile-app-users-data-safe/) that says to not store the AppClientSecret in the mobile app but how would it be possible to implement custom sign in without…

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Cognito User Pool custom attributes do not show up in the ID token if user pool is configured with a SAML identity provider
According to the documentation, the ID token (a JWT token) created by Cognito upon user authentication is also supposed to contain the custom attributes defined for the user's User Pool.
It seems that when the User Pool is configured with a SAML…

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Integrate Facebook login with AWS Cognito User Pool
I'm trying to integrate aws user pool in my project. I manage to do a normal login with email and password, but I need to add login in with Facebook.
From what I read in documentation, for this I need to create an Indentity pool in Federated…

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Error: Amplify has not been configured correctly. Ionic React Sign In and Sign Up Form AWS
New to AWS, I'm trying to connect my registration and login form to AWS.
What I expected:
Create a user in my userpool with signUp
Log in to my apps with signIn
What is happening:
Error: Amplify has not been configured correctly
What I…

Jeremy Rollo
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Postgres row-level-access via cognito userpool
I am trying to set up row-level access control in Postgres through a Cognito user pool. I have set up the user pool and can successfully authenticate users through it, but I am not sure how to link it to Postgres for row-level access control…

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Multi region availability of user pools in aws cognito
I am working on SAAS Application, where the world wide users will authenticate to our system. We decided to use AWS Cognito as an identity platform. For greater availability and low latency for the authentication, we decided to replicate userpools…
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Is it possible to get logging into CloudTrail/CloudWatch from AWS cognito user pools with the hosted UI?
I've been looking at events from cognito in cloudtrail, and I get several of them, but not all. After finding this article, it states: Hosted UI and Federation calls are currently not included in CloudTrail logging events.
If it's still not…

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How to make user attributes from AWS userpool updateable?
I am trying to update attributes from users from a AWS Cognito userpool with AWS Amplify.
try {
const user = await Auth.currentAuthenticatedUser();
await Auth.updateUserAttributes(user, {
'nickname': 'newtestname'
});
} catch…

Jan
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Why am I unable to select checkboxes in the AWS Cognito console?
AWS noob here, I want to manage my sign in options for user pools but everything is locked somehow. I've been struggling with this way too long trying to enable this but can't figure it out. I'm logged in as the root user. Thanks

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Automatically disable a confirmed AWS Cognito user account after a period of inactivity
I would like to know if AWS Cognito offers any facility where I can configure to disable a confirmed user if the user hasn't logged in for, say 60 days.
One way I thought of doing this is to keep track of the user's last logged-in date and calculate…

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Restore deleted amplify backend with cognito user pool
recently I tried to add an app to use the same backend than other amplify app. Somehow it did a push and had overwritten my old backend. I also lost the user Pool and all the users. Is there any way that I can restore the app or at least my users?…

Raíla
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