Authentication
Set up Amplify Auth
Amplify uses Amazon Cognito as the main authentication provider. Learn how to handle user registration, authentication, account recovery and other operations.
Manage user session and credentials
Learn how to manage user sessions and credentials.
Enable sign-up, sign-in, and sign-out
Learn how to use Amplify's sign-up, sign-in, and sign-out APIs.
Switching authentication flows
Learn more about how to switch between different auth flows in Amplify.
Add social provider sign-in
Learn how to setup social sign-in providers like Facebook, Google, Amazon, or Sign in with Apple.
Manage user profiles
Learn more about how to enable customers to personalize their profile and verify their contact information with attributes.
Set up password change and recovery
Set up user password change and recovery for your application.
Manage MFA settings
Learn how to enable multi-factor authentication with Amplify.
Remember a device
You can use the device related features of Amazon Cognito UserPools by enabling the Devices features. Go to your Cognito UserPool, click on Devices in Left Navigation Menu and chose one of User Opt In or Always.
Advanced workflows
Learn more about advanced workflows in the Amplify auth category. This includes subscribing to events, identity pool federation, auth-related Lambda triggers and working with AWS service objects.
Delete user account
Learn how to delete a user account.
Set up admin actions
Learn how to expose administrative actions for your Cognito User Pool to your end user applications.
Set up user group management
Create logical groups in Cognito User Pools and assign permissions to access resources in Amplify categories with the Amplify CLI.
Use an existing Cognito User Pool and Identity Pool
Configure the Amplify CLI to use existing Amazon Cognito User Pool and Identity Pool resources as an authentication and authorization mechanism for other Amplify categories (API, Storage, and more).
Override Amplify-generated Cognito resources
The 'amplify override auth' command generates a developer-configurable 'overrides' TypeScript file that provides Amplify-generated Cognito resources as CDK constructs. For example, developers can set auth settings that are not directly available in the Amplify CLI workflow, such as the number of valid days for a temporary password.
Listen to auth events
Listen to various auth events
Under the hood
Learn more about the foundational auth concepts for cloud-based application and how they work with Amplify.
Migrate from v5 to v6
Learn more about the migration steps to upgrade Auth APIs for Amplify JavaScript v5 to v6