What is difference between Amazon Cognito user pools and identity pools?

by KAUSTUBH SHARMA on Feb. 25, 2021, 10:50 p.m. with 779 views

User Pools

 

• User pools are for authentication (identify verification). With a user pool, your app users can sign in through the user pool or federate through a third-party identity provider (IdP).

 

When to use User Pool?

 

• Design sign-up and sign-in webpages for your app.
• Access and manage user data.
• Track user device, location, and IP address, and adapt to sign-in requests of different risk levels.
• For Social sign-in with Facebook, Google, Login with Amazon, and Sign in with Apple, as well as sign-in with SAML identity providers like Social sign-in with Facebook, Google, Login with Amazon, and Sign in with Apple, as well as sign-in with SAML identity providers from your user pool. from your user pool.
• Use a custom authentication flow for your app.

 

Identity pools

 

• Identity pools are for authorization (access control). You can use identity pools to create unique identities for users and give them access to other AWS services.
• To enable users in your user pool to access AWS resources, you can configure an identity pool to exchange user pool tokens for AWS credentials.

 

When to use Identity Pool?

 

• Give your users access to AWS resources, such as an Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) bucket or an Amazon DynamoDB table.
• Generate temporary AWS credentials for unauthenticated users.

 

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