Amazon Cognito now supports passwordless authentication for low-friction and secure logins in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Today, Amazon Cognito announced support for passwordless authentication for low-friction and secure logins in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Amazon Cognito now allows you to secure user access to your applications with passwordless authentication, including sign-in with passkeys, email, and text message. Passkeys are based on FIDO standards and use public key cryptography, which enables strong, phishing-resistant authentication. With passwordless authentication, you can reduce the friction associated with traditional password-based authentication and thus simplify the user log-in experience for their applications. For example, if your users choose to use passkeys to log in, they can do so using a built-in authenticator, such as Touch ID on Apple MacBooks and Windows Hello facial recognition on PCs.
Amazon Cognito provides millions of users with secure, scalable, and customizable sign-up and sign-in experiences within minutes. With this launch, AWS is now extending the support for passwordless authentication to the applications you build. This enables your end-users to log in to your applications with a low-friction and secure approach.
Passwordless authentication is offered as part of the Cognito Essentials tier and can be used in all AWS Regions where Amazon Cognito is available, including AWS GovCloud (US). To get started, see the following resources: