Amazon Cognito in Amazon Web Services China
Amazon Cognito lets you easily add user sign-up and sign-in and manage permissions for your mobile and web apps. You can create your own user directory within Amazon Cognito. You can also choose to authenticate users through social identity providers such as Facebook, Twitter, or Amazon; with SAML identity solutions; or by using your own identity system. In addition, Amazon Cognito enables you to save data locally on users' devices, allowing your applications to work even when the devices are offline. You can then synchronize data across users' devices so that their app experience remains consistent regardless of the device they use.
Region availability
Amazon Cognito is available in the following regions in China:
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China (Beijing) Region
How Amazon Cognito differs
The following differences apply to Amazon Cognito:
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Amazon Cognito User Pools are not currently available in the China (Beijing) Region.
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Amazon Cognito Federated Identities do not currently support Facebook or Twitter as identity providers in the China (Beijing) Region.
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In the China (Beijing) Region, identity pool tokens are issued by https://cognito-identity.cn-north-1.amazonaws.com.cn/
instead of https://cognito-identity.amazonaws.com/ . -
When you are using Developer Authenticated Identities, https://cognito-identity.cn-north-1.amazonaws.com.cn/
is the key to the login map for GetCredentialsForIdentity.