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Amazon Cognito now supports multi-Region replication
- crises-luff-6b 5mo ago[dead]
- mooreds 5mo agoI work for a Cognito competitor, but I am glad to see them investing in improving the lives of folks using this native AWS service. It felt like Cognito was abandoned for a while.
- grimleech 5mo ago[dead]
- cmiles8 5mo agoThis has been an obvious feature request for many years, but glad to see AWS investing in what started to feel like a service that was mostly abandoned for investment.
- jeffwask 5mo agoI recall complaining about this with one of my architects who was looking to implement Cognito round about 2019.
- UltraSane 5mo agoThis should have been available from the beginning. I don't understand why it took so long.
- semiquaver 5mo agoI think cognito was internally low-staff/KTLO for a while and that changed recently.
- mooreds 5mo agoWhat does KLTO mean?
- christophercork 5mo ago"Keep Lights To On." It's the post-it on the light switch wired to the Cognito server.
- xyzzy_plugh 5mo agoProbably meant KTLO: Keep The Lights On
- Insanity 5mo agoTo add to the other posters, keep-the-lights-on usually means a product has no active feature development. It’s just supported with on-call and maybe some bug fixes depending on capacity. No clue if Cognito actually was KTLO though.
- conroydave 5mo agoi try to keep my comments on here positive, but man, my experience using this product has been awful.
- paulddraper 5mo agoYou should really stay away from any "high level" AWS product, as there is almost always something much better and more flexible. Use EC2, EBS, S3, Route53 plus EKS, RDS, ElastiCache. But anything else that isn't low-to-mid-level (looking at you Beanstalk), use something better. Clerk, WorkOS, etc.
- dogma1138 5mo agoCognito isn’t a high level product not anymore than any of those you’ve mentioned it’s a CIAM solution.
- paulddraper 5mo agoIt's a Clerk/Auth0/WorkOS alternative. If you implemented it yourself, you would do it on top of those.
- jwnin 5mo agoThis prevented us from failing over during last October's outage (unless we wanted to reset everyone's password). Glad to see AWS focusing in on resiliency.
- ecshafer 5mo agoCognito just supported multi-region? For identity this seems like a very high priority issue. I was at a company 10 years ago that we didn't use Cognito to build, and build our own AWS based identity because Cognito didn't have this (and just seemed pretty half-baked).
- arpinum 5mo agoThey wanted to rebase onto a different database first to make multi-region easier, but that work took many years.
- mannyv 5mo agoYay, it's only taken them years to do this. Since the pool identifiers are static, how do you actually fail over? Oh, you need a custom domain that presumably routes if the primary dies.