Add more features and security options to your user pool

After you have followed the tutorials to complete example applications, you can broaden the scope of your user pool implementation. Or, if you didn't create a test application, create a new user pool according to your preferences. You can customize user pool features for other applications or add external identity providers. As you plan your move to put Amazon Cognito user pools in production applications, you can evaluate additional examples and tutorials.

Amazon Cognito has feature plans that add functional and security options when you opt in to higher tiers. You can start with the Lite plan, add advanced authentication and authorization options with the Essentials plan, and add automated-reasoning security guardrails with the Plus plan. For more information, see User pool feature plans.

The following are some additional Amazon Cognito user pools features:

For an overview of Amazon Cognito authentication and authorization models, see How authentication works with Amazon Cognito.

To access other AWS services after a successful user pool authentication, see Accessing AWS services using an identity pool after sign-in.

In addition to using the AWS Management Console and the user pool SDKs, you can also manage your user pools by using the AWS Command Line Interface.