Amazon Cognito now supports multi-Region replication

(aws.amazon.com)

25 points | by mooreds 3 hours ago ago

13 comments

  • conroydave 2 hours ago

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

  • cmiles8 2 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 20 minutes ago

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

  • ecshafer an 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 an 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.

  • 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 an 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