Amazon Cognito identity pools (federated identities)

Amazon Cognito identity pools (federated identities) enable you to create unique identities for your users and federate them with identity providers. With an identity pool, you can obtain temporary, limited-privilege AWS credentials to access other AWS services. Amazon Cognito identity pools support the following identity providers:

• Public providers: Login with Amazon (identity pools), Facebook (identity pools), Google (identity pools), Sign in with Apple (identity pools).

• Amazon Cognito user pools

• OpenID Connect providers (identity pools)

• SAML identity providers (identity pools)

• Developer authenticated identities (identity pools)

For information about Amazon Cognito identity pools region availability, see AWS Service Region Availability.

For more information about Amazon Cognito identity pools, see the following topics.

Topics

• Getting started with Amazon Cognito identity pools (federated identities)
• Using identity pools (federated identities)
• Identity pools concepts (federated identities)
• Using attributes for access control as a form of attribute-based access control
• Role-based access control
• Getting credentials
• Accessing AWS services
• Identity pools (federated identities) external identity providers
• Developer authenticated identities (identity pools)
• Switching unauthenticated users to authenticated users (identity pools)