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The Amazon Cognito Auth SDK for JavaScript simplifies adding sign-up, sign-in with user profile functionality to web apps.
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Cognito Auth vs. Cognito Identity? #142

Open wzup opened 6 years ago

wzup commented 6 years ago

What's the difference? Why two? Why no docs about difference? What to use for what use cases?

https://github.com/aws/amazon-cognito-auth-js https://github.com/aws/aws-amplify/tree/master/packages/amazon-cognito-identity-js

gpolyn commented 5 years ago

Some comment on this identical issue at https://github.com/aws-amplify/amplify-js/issues/1120.