Announcing new feature tiers: Essentials and Plus for Amazon Cognito

Amazon Cognito has introduced two new user pool feature tiers: Essentials and Plus. The Essentials tier provides comprehensive and flexible user authentication and access control features, allowing customers to implement secure and customized sign-up and sign-in experiences. It supports various login methods, including password-based, multi-factor authentication, and login with social identity providers. Essentials also allows customizing access tokens and disallowing password reuse. The Plus tier is designed for customers with elevated security needs, offering threat protection capabilities against suspicious logins. It includes all Essentials features, plus risk-based adaptive authentication, compromised credentials detection, and exporting user authentication event logs. Essentials will be the default tier for new user pools, but customers can switch between tiers anytime based on their application needs. Existing user pools can enable the new tiers or continue using their current configurations without changes. Customers using advanced security features should consider the Plus tier, which includes all ASF capabilities and additional features like passwordless login, with up to 60% savings. The Essentials and Plus tiers are available at new pricing in all AWS Regions where Amazon Cognito is available, except AWS GovCloud (US) Regions.