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by koromak 515 days ago
Cognito feels like its bones are grinding together
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They can’t really get rid of Cognito. It’s the authentication/authorization platform for external users. There is no migration path that will seamlessly transfer user names and passwords to other mainstream services like CodeCommit.
I can see reduced federation options and increased costs, but Cognito is OAuth so it's never going to die. You might as well try to get rid of IAM.
especially since they won't support exporting password hashes.
If you run internal apps on ECS, cognito effectively gives you beyondcorp for free. Being able to put cognito as a rule in your load balancer is choice. I wouldn't use it for anything else, though.