📊Tracking: Cognito - Identity Pools

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Overview:

Amazon Cognito provides authentication, authorization, and user management for your web and mobile apps. Your users can sign in directly with a user name and password, or through a third party such as Facebook, Amazon, Google or Apple.

Cognito Identity pools provide authorization via identity federation

AWS Docs for Identity Pools

CDK API reference page

Maturity: CloudFormation only

See the AWS Construct Library Module Lifecycle doc for more information about maturity levels.

Features & Support

Done	Item	Needed for Graduation	Link to issue or docs
	initialization & import	✔️
	public identity providers & access control	✔️
	role mapping & mapping rules	✔️
	OpenIdConnect & SAML and developer-authenticated identity providers	❓

Issues

All open Cognito issues can be found here

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This is a 📊Tracking Issue

[gradybarrett]

Having openid capabilities would be fantastic since it enables us to bring our own identity provider. That's a major use case for large orgs where user pools are blacklisted for use in favor of centralized IdPs. Auth0 being a great example

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