Setup Guide for AWS Cognito App
- First of all, go to Amazon Console and sign up/login in your account to Configure AWS Cognito.
- Search for Cognito in the AWS Services search bar as shown below.
- Click on Create a user pool to create a new user pool.
- Choose the attributes in your user pool to be used during the sign-in process.
- Set up a strong password to configure your security requirements. Go ahead with the ‘No MFA’ option if you want users to only sign in with a single authentication factor. If you wish to enable MFA (Multi-factor authentication) it will require SMS messages which are charged separately by Amazon SNS. Learn more about that here. Click Next.
- Configure attributes that would be required during the user sign-up flow.
- Choose additional attributes if you wish to. Click Next.
- Configure how your user pool sends email messages to users.
- Enter a name for your user pool, Also Under Hosted authentication pages, check ‘Use the Cognito Hosted UI’.
- Now, Under the Domain section choose the domain type as ‘Use a Cognito domain’. Enter a domain name for your Cognito app.
- Under the Initial app client section, Enter a name for your app client and check on Generate a client secret.
- Now enter your Callback/Redirect URL which you will get from your miniOrange plugin present on your Client side and paste it under the Allowed callback URLs text-field. Also refer the following image for choosing the authentication flows for your app.
- Now, Under Advanced app client settings. Select Identity provider as Cognito user pool & Select Authorization code grant under the OAuth 2.0 grant types and also select openid,email and profile checkboxes under the OpenID Connect scopes section (Please refer to the image below). Click on the Next button to save your configurations.
- Now, Review your selection of requirements. Click Create user pool to confirm the selection and create a user pool.
- After successfully creating your user pool, Select your pool name from the list of pools to start with user creation.
- Go to the Users tab, and click Create user.
- Enter details such as username, email address & password. Click on Create user to save the details.
- After the successful creation of the user, you will need a copy of the Cognito
domain, Client ID, and Client Secret. Go to the 'App Integration' section and copy
the complete domain name {your domain name}.auth.{region name}.amazoncognito.com. This should be entered
into the endpoints field under
in the miniOrange OAuth Single Sign-On (SSO) plugin. - To get the Client ID and Client Secret, stay on the same 'App Integration' tab and scroll down to the 'App clients and analytics' section. Click on your App client name to see the Client ID and Client Secret.
In case you have enabled AWS Federation and would like to allow users to authenticate only via certain identity providers, then please select the desired OR targeted provider from the dropdown menu.
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