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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.

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  1. 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.
    baharev on GitHub (aws-amplify/amplify-js)Dec 2017+109 upvotesAsked for a toolHas a workaround
  2. 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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