Project Task 2.1 – Creating an Amazon Cognito User Pool for the Todo List Application

In this project task, you will start working on the Developer project that we discussed in the previous chapter. As discussed, you will work with several AWS services and create multiple AWS resources designed to host and manage the application for our fictitious client, Todo Plus Limited.

In this task, you will create an Amazon Cognito user pool that will be used to authenticate and authorize end-user sign-up and sign-in capabilities for the application.

The following diagram highlights the area of the overall architectural plan you will work on in this project task.

Figure 2.16 – Project Task – Create Cognito user pool

1. Log in to your AWS development account as the user Alice, which you created in the last exercise.
2. Navigate to the Cognito service by searching for it in the top search bar.
3. Click the Create user pool button on the...