Amazon Cognito now supports multi-Region replication

6/8/2026 at 4:19:39 PM

i try to keep my comments on here positive, but man, my experience using this product has been awful.

by conroydave

6/8/2026 at 6:25:59 PM

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.

by paulddraper

6/9/2026 at 1:18:40 AM

Cognito isn’t a high level product not anymore than any of those you’ve mentioned it’s a CIAM solution.

by dogma1138

6/9/2026 at 2:45:03 AM

It's a Clerk/Auth0/WorkOS alternative.

If you implemented it yourself, you would do it on top of those.

by paulddraper

6/8/2026 at 3:36:14 PM

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.

by cmiles8

6/8/2026 at 5:45:33 PM

I recall complaining about this with one of my architects who was looking to implement Cognito round about 2019.

by jeffwask

6/8/2026 at 4:58:17 PM

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).

by ecshafer

6/8/2026 at 5:14:08 PM

They wanted to rebase onto a different database first to make multi-region easier, but that work took many years.

by arpinum

6/8/2026 at 4:28:26 PM

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.

by jwnin

6/8/2026 at 6:10:03 PM

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.

by mannyv

6/8/2026 at 3:25:39 PM

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.

by mooreds

6/8/2026 at 4:54:40 PM

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by grimleech

6/8/2026 at 3:50:55 PM

This should have been available from the beginning. I don't understand why it took so long.

by UltraSane

6/8/2026 at 4:06:18 PM

I think cognito was internally low-staff/KTLO for a while and that changed recently.

by semiquaver

6/8/2026 at 4:15:58 PM

What does KLTO mean?

by mooreds

6/8/2026 at 4:57:10 PM

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.

by Insanity

6/8/2026 at 4:22:28 PM

Probably meant KTLO: Keep The Lights On

by xyzzy_plugh

6/8/2026 at 4:28:50 PM

"Keep Lights To On." It's the post-it on the light switch wired to the Cognito server.

by christophercork

6/8/2026 at 4:48:56 PM

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