6 engineers on Hacker News describe using Amazon Cognito first-hand: 0 endorse it, 3 regret it, 1 are mixed.
“Don't like that email addresses are case sensitive, and now you want to change that? Sorry, you gotta create a new user pool from scratch”
regret · production · patwolf · 2026-08-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I kind of like Cognito but both Cognito and especially API Gateway are somewhat convoluted to configure.”
mixed · production · nijave · 2026-05-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“if I'm using Cognito for authorization (group-level authorizers) then god help me (check out their limits on those custom fields too).”
regret · production · jaeming · 2022-07-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I would be wary of integrating against an AWS service which does not have an API compatible offline... A case where we fail at this is Cognito. Even our 'offline'/local stack has to connect to our dev environment”
regret · production · wdfx · 2021-12-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“These are the services we used.”
neutral · production · scarface74 · 2020-12-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We've been using amazon cognito with lambda authorizers.”
neutral · production · InGodsName · 2018-12-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?