Production Ready Cognito Book

What is Cognito exactly?

Cognito is a fully managed authentication service from Amazon web services.It allows devs to quickly add user management to their applications.

Why should I use Cognito?

Cognito is a fully managed service. Because of this, there are no scaling concerns, security patches or other typically developer operational tasks that tend to suck up developers time.This means you avoid the tedious, non-differentiated auth & ops bits and can focus on the fun part, building products your customers love.Implementing your own auth system might sound fun (or not), but comes with a high amount of.

What If I already use a different auth provider?

Fantastic! There are a couple great serverless auth solutions out there. I've used them all and I compare and constrast them with Cognito in the book.Spoiler* I prefer cognito (shocker!) due to it's ability to scale & it's favorable pricing structure 💵.

Who is this book for?

For any developers who wants a battle tested, cost effective, & scalable auth solution that can be used for any use case.For any developer who wants to fast track the steep learning curve of AWS Cognito.For any developer who wants to learn how to secure their applications, CLIs, backend services.I suffered, experimented, and ultimately failed my way to success using the service and I'm here to share it.