AWS Cognito

WS Cognito Settings

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• Go to Amazon Cognito

1. Click Manage User Pools

2. Click Create a user pool

3. Name: Fill out the Pool name with what you want and click Step through settings.

4. Attributes:

   • Username:

     • Check Also allow sign in with verified email address

     • Check Also allow sign in with preferred username (a username that your users can change)

   • Required

     • email

     • family name

     • given name

   we can add more fields, but need to update backend code in that case.

5. Policies

• Select Allow users to sign themselves up

1. MFA and verifications accept the defaults and click next.

2. Message Customizations: accept the defaults and click next.

3. Tags: accept the defaults and click next.

4. Devices: accept the defaults and click next.

5. App clients: click add an app client

• App client name: give the client a name

• UNCHECK generate client secret

• Click next

1. Triggers:

2. Create the pool:

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1. Policies; Setting Password options & click Save Changes; you can use this by default.

2. MFA and verifications: let's use this by default.

3. Message customizations: we can change these options anytime.

4. Tags: let's skip this step

5. Devices: You can choose any one what you want. In my case, it was No.

6. App clients: You should add an App client

7. Triggers; let's skip this step.

8. Click Create Pool

9. Domain name: you can fill out with random word.

10. Click General settings to get User Pool ID and use it for AWS_POOL_ID in /.env.

11. Click App clients to get app client id and use it for AWS_CLIENT_ID in /.env.

12. that's it