Month: July 2020

How to migrate the existing Cognito user pool to a different AWS account without asking users to reset their passwords

After my investigation, I found that you can use the user migration lambda trigger to import users into user pools without asking users to reset passwords. This approach enables seamless migration of users from your existing user pool to user pools in different AWS account when they use your new Amazon Cognito-enabled app for the first time, either during their…

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API Gateway REST APIs (Version 1) vs HTTP APIs (Version 2)

As you may know, there are two versions of APIs in API Gateway. API Gateway version 1 includes REST APIs only, whereas the API Gateway version 2 includes both WebSocket and HTTP APIs. HTTP APIs (V2) are designed for low-latency, cost-effective AWS Lambda proxy and HTTP proxy APIs. Previous-generation REST APIs (V1) currently offer more features, and full control over…

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