A Simplistic way to getting started with Cognito User Pools
You can now use Amazon Cognito to easily add user sign-up and sign-in to your mobile and web apps. With the user pools feature, you can create your own user directory that can scale to hundreds of millions of users, and is fully managed so you don’t have to worry about the heavy lifting associated with building, securing, and scaling authentication to your apps. This feature also provides enhanced security functionality such as email verification, phone number verification, and multi-factor authentication.
Using a user pool gives you detailed control over the sign-up and sign-in aspects of your web and mobile SaaS apps, games, and so forth. Building and running a directory service at scale (potentially tens or even hundreds of millions of users) is not easy, but is definitely undifferentiated heavy lifting, with the added security burden that comes when you are managing user names, passwords, email addresses, and other sensitive pieces of information. You don’t need to build or run your own directory service when you use Cognito Identity.
Coming soon.