# AWS Cognito

- **Canonical URI:** https://www.vioscale.ai/software/aws-cognito
- **Category:** Auth & Identity Software
- **Homepage:** https://aws.amazon.com/cognito/
- **Also known as:** aws-cognito
- **Profile claimed by vendor:** no
- **Last updated:** 2026-08-05T14:15:15.788Z

## Vioscale score

**40 / 100**, confidence 61% (medium).

Composite of weighted, independently-sourced signals (no user reviews, no vendor payment).

| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence present |
|---|--:|--:|--:|:--:|
| price_level | 80 | 0.047 | 3.8 | ✓ |
| reliability | 50 | 0.105 | 5.3 | ✓ |
| capabilities | 91.6 | 0.07 | 6.4 | ✓ |
| integrations | 26 | 0.07 | 1.8 | ✓ |
| security_posture | 20 | 0.234 | 4.7 | ✓ |
| pricing_transparency | 25 | 0.058 | 1.5 | ✓ |

## Pricing

_As of 2026-08-05, [verify at source](https://aws.amazon.com/cognito/). Independently observed._

Usage-based · Free tier

> Usage-based pricing with no minimum fees or upfront commitments. Three tiers available (Lite, Essentials, Plus).

| Plan | Price | Free | Commitment |
|---|---|:--:|---|
| Lite | - | - | - |
| Essentials | - | - | - |
| Plus | - | - | - |

### Lite

Basic user registration, authentication, and management capabilities, including social identity and SAML/OIDC provider integration, and password-based authentication.

### Essentials

Comprehensive user authentication and access control with Managed Login, passwordless login using passkeys, email, or SMS, access token customization, and password reuse restrictions.

### Plus

Advanced security with risk-based adaptive authentication, compromised credentials detection, and authentication event log export.

## About

Amazon Cognito is a fully managed customer identity and access management service that handles secure sign-in and access control for users, AI agents, and microservices. It processes over 100 billion authentications monthly and supports both human and machine identities.

_Independently observed._

## Platform & deployment

- **Platforms:** Web
- **Deployment:** Cloud / SaaS

## Integrations (7)

_Independently observed._

- AWS Amplify
- React
- Next.js
- Angular
- Vue
- Flutter
- Amazon Bedrock

## Capabilities

_The capabilities that matter for Auth & Identity Software. "-" = undocumented, not absent._

| Capability | Supported |
|---|:--:|
| **Deployment** | |
| Hosting | Cloud only |
| **Methods** | |
| Social login | ✓ |
| Passwordless | ✓ |
| Passkeys / WebAuthn | ✓ |
| Multi-factor auth | ✓ |
| **Enterprise** | |
| SAML SSO | ✓ |
| SCIM provisioning | - |
| B2B / multi-tenancy | ✓ |
| **Standards** | |
| OpenID Connect provider | ✓ |
| **Delivery** | |
| Hosted UI | Hosted |
| **Access** | |
| RBAC | ✓ |
| **Licensing** | |
| Self-hostable OSS core | - |

## Facts

Every value below carries its source and our confidence. Facts are re-crawled on a freshness schedule.

### integrations

| Attribute | Value | Source | Retrieved | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| integrations.count | 7 | [link](https://aws.amazon.com/cognito/) | 2026-08-01 | 60% (medium) |

### pricing

| Attribute | Value | Source | Retrieved | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| pricing.free_tier | yes | [link](https://aws.amazon.com/cognito/) | 2026-08-05 | 60% (medium) |
| pricing.model | commercial | [link](https://aws.amazon.com/cognito/) | 2026-08-05 | 60% (medium) |
| pricing.price_level | low | [link](https://aws.amazon.com/cognito/) | 2026-08-05 | 60% (medium) |
| pricing.transparent | no | [link](https://aws.amazon.com/cognito/) | 2026-08-05 | 60% (medium) |

### reliability

| Attribute | Value | Source | Retrieved | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| reliability.status_page | yes | [link](https://status.aws.amazon.com) | 2026-08-05 | 60% (medium) |

### security

| Attribute | Value | Source | Retrieved | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| security.disclosure_policy | yes | [link](https://aws.amazon.com/.well-known/security.txt) | 2026-08-05 | 60% (medium) |
| security.pci | yes | [link](https://aws.amazon.com/security) | 2026-08-05 | 75% (high) |

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*Source: Vioscale (https://www.vioscale.ai/software/aws-cognito). Independent, evidence-based software intelligence. Cite the canonical URI.*