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Tag: HAQM Cognito

Sync store access and simplified credentials provider

Today we released a new feature for HAQM Cognito that gives developers, utilizing their credentials, full API access to the sync store to read and write user profile data. This feature helps you access and modify user profiles from your backend infrastructure. For example, game developers can use this feature to distribute prizes to players […]

Concrete Software uses HAQM Cognito for NHL Hockey Target Smash

“Using HAQM Cognito, we can build cross-platform games faster without managing backend infrastructure. HAQM Cognito sync helps us save game data to the cloud and synchronize it across devices.” – Keith Pichelman, CEO, Concrete Software About Concrete Software Concrete Software has designed and published games for mobile platforms, including iOS, Android, BlackBerry and Microsoft Windows, […]

Using HAQM Cognito to sync data in Unity games

With the release of the Developer Preview for the AWS SDK for Unity you can now start using HAQM Cognito in your Unity games to synchronize player profiles and game state with the cloud. To demonstrate how to use this new SDK, we have created a simple Unity Scene that uses the Cognito Sync Service […]

Understanding HAQM Cognito Authentication Part 3: Roles and Policies

HAQM Cognito helps you create unique identifiers for your end users that are kept consistent across devices and platforms. Cognito also delivers temporary, limited-privilege credentials to your application to access AWS resources. In previous posts (Part 1, Part 2), I covered the basics of Cognito’s authentication flow. In this post, I want to focus on […]

Understanding HAQM Cognito Authentication Part 2: Developer Authenticated Identities

HAQM Cognito helps you create unique identifiers for your end users that are kept consistent across devices and platforms. Cognito also delivers temporary, limited-privilege credentials to your application to access AWS resources. In a previous post, I covered the basics of Cognito’s authentication flow. In this post, I will show the differences in that flow […]

HAQM Cognito Adds Industry Standard Support with OpenID Connect

We are excited to announce that we’re enhancing HAQM Cognito to support OpenID Connect (OIDC), an open standard for identity authentication. You can now utilize HAQM Cognito to generate unique identifiers and receive temporary AWS credentials with any OIDC-compatible provider. This new feature greatly expands the universe of identity providers you can leverage with HAQM […]

HAQM Cognito : Announcing Developer Authenticated Identities

HAQM Cognito helps developers synchronize user-state across devices and securely access AWS resources. When we released HAQM Cognito, we offered the ability to create unique identities through a number of public identity providers (HAQM, Facebook, and Google) and also supported unauthenticated, “guest” users. Based on customer feedback, today we are announcing support for “developer authenticated […]

Understanding HAQM Cognito Authentication

HAQM Cognito helps you create unique identifiers for your end users that are kept consistent across devices and platforms. Cognito also delivers temporary, limited-privilege credentials to your application to access AWS resources. Today, I’m going to cover the basics of how authentication in Cognito works and explain the life cycle of an identity inside your […]

Using HAQM Cognito to Sync Data

The percentage of people with multiple mobile devices is growing. These people might use their phone on the go and their tablet when they get home. Consequently, they now want to be able to seamlessly transition from one device to another. In previous posts, we’ve talked about how to use HAQM Cognito to provide a […]