Cognito developers struggle to map identities to user records
Developers need to connect Cognito Identity Pool IDs with authenticated users’ attributes and application records, including for per-user resources such as S3 folders. In these reports, the relationship was difficult to retrieve programmatically; workarounds included recovering it from login tokens or relying on user-provided information that developers did not trust.
For AWS Cognito backend and mobile app developers. Mentioned from Dec 2017 to Nov 2023 on GitHub and Hacker News.
3 different people described this problem in 2 separate discussions.
- Indie fit
- 4.0/10
- Pain
- 6.4/10
- Frequency
- 5.0/10
- Willingness to pay
- 0.0/10
- Momentum
- 5.0/10
- Who pays
- Professionals
- Competition
- Medium
- Build difficulty
- Medium
What people said
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Given the Cognito identity ID, I would like to programmatically find the user name, e-mail address, etc. For example, one issue is that each user gets his/her own folder in S3 (e.g.
Somehow the mapping between users and identity IDs seem to be hidden. The only way I could recover it is through the login tokens
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