26 points by mooreds 3 hours ago | 8 comments
conroydave 2 hours ago
i try to keep my comments on here positive, but man, my experience using this product has been awful.
paulddraper 23 minutes ago
You should really stay away from any "high level" AWS product, as there is almost always something much better and more flexible.

Use EC2, EBS, S3, Route53 plus EKS, RDS, ElastiCache.

But anything else that isn't low-to-mid-level (looking at you Beanstalk), use something better.

Clerk, WorkOS, etc.

mannyv 38 minutes ago
Yay, it's only taken them years to do this.

Since the pool identifiers are static, how do you actually fail over?

Oh, you need a custom domain that presumably routes if the primary dies.

cmiles8 3 hours ago
This has been an obvious feature request for many years, but glad to see AWS investing in what started to feel like a service that was mostly abandoned for investment.
jeffwask 1 hour ago
I recall complaining about this with one of my architects who was looking to implement Cognito round about 2019.
ecshafer 1 hour ago
Cognito just supported multi-region? For identity this seems like a very high priority issue. I was at a company 10 years ago that we didn't use Cognito to build, and build our own AWS based identity because Cognito didn't have this (and just seemed pretty half-baked).
arpinum 1 hour ago
They wanted to rebase onto a different database first to make multi-region easier, but that work took many years.
jwnin 2 hours ago
This prevented us from failing over during last October's outage (unless we wanted to reset everyone's password). Glad to see AWS focusing in on resiliency.
mooreds 3 hours ago
I work for a Cognito competitor, but I am glad to see them investing in improving the lives of folks using this native AWS service.

It felt like Cognito was abandoned for a while.

grimleech 1 hour ago
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UltraSane 2 hours ago
This should have been available from the beginning. I don't understand why it took so long.
semiquaver 2 hours ago
I think cognito was internally low-staff/KTLO for a while and that changed recently.
mooreds 2 hours ago
What does KLTO mean?
Insanity 1 hour ago
To add to the other posters, keep-the-lights-on usually means a product has no active feature development. It’s just supported with on-call and maybe some bug fixes depending on capacity.

No clue if Cognito actually was KTLO though.

christophercork 2 hours ago
"Keep Lights To On." It's the post-it on the light switch wired to the Cognito server.
xyzzy_plugh 2 hours ago
Probably meant KTLO: Keep The Lights On
crises-luff-6b 2 hours ago
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