1000 Word overview of AWS Cognito

Kind of writing: Technology
Num. of articles: 1
Words per article: 1000
Industry: Technology
Topic: Cloud Computing / AWS
Tone: Informal/Casual
Outline & Structure: Article should answer the following questions:

What is AWS Cognito?

Why is using it better than building your own authentication system?

What are some common scenarios where you'd use it?

What's the difference between AWS Cognito and AWS IAM?

What's something unexpected you can do with AWS Cognito?

What's a scenario where you likely would not find AWS Cognito to be a good fit?
Extensive research needed: yes
Extra notes: The point of the article is to help someone who may be technically literate (a developer or sysadmin) understand how/when to use AWS Cognito.

It is NOT an article on how to set it up, coding, etc.

For an example of the level of detail and format, check out these articles (which I wrote).


https://www.expeditedssl.com/aws-s3-in-plain-english
https://www.expeditedssl.com/aws-s3-buckets-of-objects
https://www.expeditedssl.com/aws-lambda-in-plain-english