Walking through the Amplify Admin UI

In the previous section, we enabled the Admin UI and data modeling. In this section, we will go through a few Admin UI features that are related to our Amplify app:

1. Click on the User management button from the left-hand side menu. You will see the User Management console, which is a simplified version of the Cognito service that we mentioned earlier in this book. You can manage users and groups directly from here by clicking the Set up authentication button:

   Figure 9.29 – Admin UI – User Management

2. Click on the Authentication button on the left-hand side menu. At this point, you will see the Authentication console, which is similar to the Cognito service that we mentioned earlier in this book. You can configure the login mechanism directly from here, such as email or phone only, or even multi-factor authentication (MFA):

   Figure 9.30 – Admin UI – Authentication

3. Click on the Functions button on the left-hand...