alt Hacker NewsMy experience with Cognito matches the author's experience exactly. I mostly used Auth0 in the past, but we switched to Cognito for a new project because it would be cheaper.
Don't like that email addresses are case sensitive, and now you want to change that? Sorry, you gotta create a new user pool from scratch--no way to migrate.
That’s really the worst feature of it. When you first set it up you’re asked at least a dozen questions that you probably have no idea what they mean. But you have to pick something. And whatever you pick on that first day setup you are stuck with FOREVER. Unless you do a complex data migration task.
Also, want to migrate to a different provider? Sorry. You can’t get the hashed passwords out. So if you do a migration it will be painful to users since they’ll have to do a password reset.
Yes it’s cheap. But you get what you pay for.