AWS Cognito Setup

AWS Cognito Settings

This will be updated

• Go to Amazon Cognito

• Click Manage User Pools

• Click Create a user pool

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

• 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.

• Policies

  • Select Allow users to sign themselves up

• MFA and verifications accept the defaults and click next.

• Message Customizations: accept the defaults and click next.

• Tags: accept the defaults and click next.

• Devices: accept the defaults and click next.

• App clients: click add an app client

  • App client name: give the client a name

  • UNCHECK generate client secret

  • Click next

• Triggers:

• 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