Amazon Cognito

Input—per 1M tokens

Output—per 1M tokens

Context—tokens

WeightsClosed

About

Amazon Cognito is ranked #11 of 50 in passkey authentication software on Inferse. It runs on Android, API, iOS, Web.

Compared on passkey authentication software

Free plan: Yesaws.amazon.com

Facts

Purpose: Amazon Cognito provides sign-up, sign-in, access control, and brokered AWS service access for web and mobile applications.aws.amazon.com · 2 Oct 2026
Scale: AWS says Cognito identity stores can scale to millions of users.aws.amazon.com · 2 Oct 2026
Passwordless login: Cognito supports passwordless sign-in through email, SMS, and WebAuthn passkeys.aws.amazon.com · 2 Oct 2026
Federation: Cognito supports social identity providers including Apple, Facebook, Google, and Amazon, as well as enterprise SAML and OIDC providers.aws.amazon.com · 2 Oct 2026
Developer integrations: Cognito integrates with AWS Amplify, Lambda, AWS WAF, AppSync, Application Load Balancers, API Gateway, and Amazon Verified Permissions.aws.amazon.com · 2 Oct 2026
SDK languages: The Cognito SDK is available for Java, C++, PHP, Python, Golang, Ruby, .NET, and JavaScript.aws.amazon.com · 2 Oct 2026
Security: Cognito supports MFA, compromised credential detection, and risk-based adaptive authentication; some advanced threat protections are Plus-tier features.aws.amazon.com · 2 Oct 2026
Compliance: AWS states Cognito is HIPAA eligible and compliant with PCI DSS, SOC, and several ISO standards.aws.amazon.com · 2 Oct 2026
Logging: Cognito supports monitoring through CloudTrail, CloudWatch Metrics, and CloudWatch Logs Insights, and can stream user event logs to CloudWatch, S3, or third-party aggregation solutions through Kinesis Data Firehose.aws.amazon.com · 2 Oct 2026
Use cases: AWS describes Cognito for customer identity, B2B multi-tenancy, machine-to-machine authorization, and authentication of microservices and workloads.aws.amazon.com · 2 Oct 2026
Pricing limits: The free tier is unavailable in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions, and machine-to-machine token requests have no free tier.aws.amazon.com · 2 Oct 2026
Service level: The Cognito tier comparison lists a 99.9% service level agreement for Lite, Essentials, and Plus.aws.amazon.com · 2 Oct 2026