Company
Date Published
Author
Dan Moore
Word count
1774
Language
English
Hacker News points
1

Summary

Amazon Cognito is a serverless CIAM service with deep AWS integration, offering authentication and authorization through various OAuth grants. However, it has limitations such as inflexible user interfaces, lack of data control, and high costs for SAML accounts after the free tier. Potential customers may want to migrate away from Cognito due to these limitations. A bulk migration involves forcing all users to reset their passwords, while a slow migration allows users to log in with their existing credentials before the old system is shut down. Both methods have pros and cons, with bulk migrations offering speed but requiring downtime and user password resets, and slow migrations minimizing impact on users but taking more time and complexity. Ultimately, the choice between bulk and slow migration depends on specific use cases and requirements.