Amazon Cognito now supports multi-Region replication

Posted by mooreds 2 days ago

Comments

Comment by conroydave 2 days ago

i try to keep my comments on here positive, but man, my experience using this product has been awful.

Comment by paulddraper 1 day ago

You 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.

Comment by dogma1138 1 day ago

Cognito isn’t a high level product not anymore than any of those you’ve mentioned it’s a CIAM solution.

Comment by paulddraper 1 day ago

It's a Clerk/Auth0/WorkOS alternative.

If you implemented it yourself, you would do it on top of those.

Comment by cmiles8 2 days ago

This 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.

Comment by jeffwask 1 day ago

I recall complaining about this with one of my architects who was looking to implement Cognito round about 2019.

Comment by ecshafer 2 days ago

Cognito 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).

Comment by arpinum 2 days ago

They wanted to rebase onto a different database first to make multi-region easier, but that work took many years.

Comment by UltraSane 2 days ago

This should have been available from the beginning. I don't understand why it took so long.

Comment by semiquaver 2 days ago

I think cognito was internally low-staff/KTLO for a while and that changed recently.

Comment by mooreds 2 days ago

What does KLTO mean?

Comment by Insanity 2 days ago

To 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.

Comment by xyzzy_plugh 2 days ago

Probably meant KTLO: Keep The Lights On

Comment by christophercork 2 days ago

"Keep Lights To On." It's the post-it on the light switch wired to the Cognito server.

Comment by jwnin 2 days ago

This 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.

Comment by mannyv 1 day ago

Yay, 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.

Comment by mooreds 2 days ago

I work for a Cognito competitor, but I am glad to see them investing in improving the lives of folks using this native AWS service.