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I recently built a new app on AWS and Lambda. I really wanted to use Cognito to keep everything in AWS. I fought with getting it working for a day or so before
by mcculley 6y ago
I recently built a new app on AWS and Lambda. I really wanted to use Cognito to keep everything in AWS. I fought with getting it working for a day or so before giving up and trying out Auth0. I was up and running with Auth0 in a couple hours. I found the Cognito documentation to be insufficient for my needs. Others may have better experiences.
- k__ 6y agoI see. I understand the wish to keep everything in AWS. Especially after I read many times thaz Auth0 is pretty expensive. Is this true?
- mcculley 6y agoAuth0 is only $23 per month to start with. That's not a lot for my use case. I would have preferred to keep everything in AWS just to make it easier to use one set of credentials (IAM) to manage permissions.
- imedadel 6y agoAre you familiar with Firebase's write rules? DynamoDB has something similar with Cognito, but it's _very_ limited. That's when I figured that I'm not gaining anything by using Cognito.
- mcculley 6y agoNo, I was not aware of that Firebase functionality as I have never used it. Interesting. Yes, it would be ideal if I could just let another layer do all of the authentication and authorization. That would have worked for the bits of code that use the database. I still would need a way to use the authentication token for things like the Stripe integration.