Document History for Amazon Cognito
The following table describes the documentation for this release of Amazon Cognito.
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Original API versions:
Amazon Cognito User Pools: 2016-04-18
Amazon Cognito Federated Identities: 2014-06-30
Amazon Cognito Sync: 2014-06-30
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Latest documentation update: December 14, 2018
| Change | Description | Date |
|---|---|---|
| New limit | A new limit is added for the maximum number of groups that each user can belong to. For more information, see Limits in Amazon Cognito. | December 14, 2018 |
| Updated limits | The soft limits for user pools are updated. For more information, see Limits in Amazon Cognito. | December 11, 2018 |
| Documentation update for verifying email addresses and phone numbers | Added information about configuring your user pool to require email or phone verification when a user signs up in your app. For more information, see Verifying Contact Information at Sign-Up. | November 20, 2018 |
| Documentation update for testing emails | Added guidance for initiating emails from Amazon Cognito while you test your app. For more information, see Sending Emails While Testing Your App. | November 13, 2018 |
| Amazon Cognito Advanced Security | Added new security features to enable developers to protect their apps and users from malicious bots, secure user accounts against compromised credentials, and automatically adjust the challenges required to sign in based on the calculated risk of the sign in attempt. | June 14, 2018 |
| Custom Domains for Amazon Cognito Hosted UI | Allow developers to use their own fully custom domain for the hosted UI in Amazon Cognito User Pools. | June 4, 2018 |
| Amazon Cognito User Pools OIDC Identity Provider | Added user pool sign-in through an OpenID Connect (OIDC) identity provider such as Salesforce or Ping Identity. | May 17, 2018 |
| Amazon Cognito Developer Guide Update | Added top level "What is Amazon Cognito" and "Getting Started with Amazon Cognito". Also added common scenarios and reorganized the user pools TOC. Added a new "Getting Started with Amazon Cognito User Pools" section. | April 6, 2018 |
| Amazon Cognito Lambda Migration Trigger | Added pages covering the Lambda Migration Trigger feature | February 8, 2018 |
| Amazon Cognito Advanced Security Beta | Added new security features to enable developers to protect their apps and users from malicious bots, secure user accounts against credentials in the wild that have been compromised elsewhere on the internet, and automatically adjust the challenges required to sign in based on the calculated risk of the sign in attempt. | November 28, 2017 |
| Amazon Pinpoint integration | Added the ability to use Amazon Pinpoint to provide analytics for your Amazon Cognito User Pools apps and to enrich the user data for Amazon Pinpoint campaigns. For more information, see Using Amazon Pinpoint Analytics with Amazon Cognito User Pools. | September 26, 2017 |
| Federation and built-in app UI features of Amazon Cognito User Pools | Added the ability to allow your users to sign in to your user pool through Facebook, Google, Login with Amazon, or a SAML identity provider. Added a customizable built-in app UI and OAuth 2.0 support with custom claims. | August 10, 2017 |
| HIPAA and PCI compliance-related feature changes | Added the ability to allow your users to use a phone number or email address as their user name. | July 6, 2017 |
| User groups and role-based access control features | Added administrative capability to create and manage user groups. Administrators can assign IAM roles to users based on group membership and administrator-created rules. For more information, see Adding Groups to a User Pool and Role-Based Access Control. | December 15, 2016 |
| Documentation update | Updated iOS code examples in Developer Authenticated Identities (Identity Pools). | November 18, 2016 |
| Documentation update | Added information about confirmation flow for user accounts. For more information, see Signing Up and Confirming User Accounts. | November 9, 2016 |
| Create user accounts feature | Added administrative capability to create user accounts through the Amazon Cognito console and the API. For more information, see Creating User Accounts as Administrator. | October 6, 2016 |
| Documentation update | Updated examples that show how to use AWS Lambda triggers with user pools. For more information, see Customizing User Pool Workflows with Lambda Triggers. | September 27, 2016 |
| User import feature | Added bulk import capability for Cognito User Pools. Use this feature to migrate users from your existing identity provider to an Amazon Cognito user pool. For more information, see Importing Users into User Pools From a CSV File. | September 1, 2016 |
| General availability of Cognito User Pools | Added the Cognito User Pools feature. Use this feature to create and maintain a user directory and add sign-up and sign-in to your mobile app or web application using user pools. For more information, see Amazon Cognito User Pools. | July 28, 2016 |
| SAML support | Added support for authentication with identity providers through Security Assertion Markup Language 2.0 (SAML 2.0). For more information, see SAML Identity Providers (Identity Pools). | June 23, 2016 |
| CloudTrail integration | Added integration with AWS CloudTrail. For more information, see Logging Amazon Cognito API Calls with AWS CloudTrail. | February 18, 2016 |
| Integration of events with Lambda | Enables you to execute an AWS Lambda function in response to important events in Amazon Cognito. For more information, see Amazon Cognito Events. | April 9, 2015 |
| Data stream to Amazon Kinesis | Provides control and insight into your data streams. For more information, see Amazon Cognito Streams. | March 4, 2015 |
| Push synchronization | Enables support for silent push synchronization. For more information, see Amazon Cognito Sync. | November 6, 2014 |
| OpenID Connect support | Enables support for OpenID Connect providers. For more information, see Identity Pools (Federated Identities) External Identity Providers. | October 23, 2014 |
| Developer-authenticated identities support added | Enables developers who own their own authentication and identity management systems to be treated as an identity provider in Amazon Cognito. For more information, see Developer Authenticated Identities (Identity Pools). | September 29, 2014 |
| Amazon Cognito general availability | July 10, 2014 |
